In the United States, over 700,000 people each year are injured or killed by unsafe products.
While the Consumer Products Safety Commission requires manufacturers to report their defective products, far too often manufacturers knowingly allow dangerous products to enter the marketplace.
At Reiner, Slaughter & Frankel, our product liability attorneys have represented hundreds of clients injured by defective or unsafe products. Through product liability lawsuits, we have not only won for our clients the compensation they deserved, but we have also played a role in making our communities safer.
We are proud that our work has motivated manufacturers to re-engineer unsafe products and improve their safety practices—changes that have no doubt prevented injuries and saved lives.
The designers, manufacturers and sellers of products are responsible for any harm caused by a defect in a product. A product is any item that can be sold–from medical instruments to food items to automobile components and everything in between.
A product can be defective for several different reasons–and these reasons may not always be obvious. For example, a product may have a manufacturing defect that would only be apparent to a metallurgist or materials scientist after he or she inspected the failed product. Similarly, a product may have a design defect that would only be apparent after an engineer reviewed the plans for the product. Discussing your product liability claim with an experienced lawyer will best preserve your ability to obtain fair compensation for your injuries.
A product contains a manufacturing defect if the product as it is built differs from the manufacturer’s design. In other words, a product that becomes unsafe because it was not made as it was supposed to be is a defectively manufactured product.
Examples of defectively manufactured products include:
A product has a design defect if does not perform as safely as the consumer would have expected it to perform or if the dangers of the design do not outweigh the benefits of the design. A manufacturer, distributor, or retailer is liable if a defect in the manufacture or design of its product causes injury while the product is being used in a reasonably foreseeable way.
Examples of defectively manufactured products include:
Even if a product is designed and manufactured properly, it can still be unsafe if the manufacturer fails to provide adequate warnings or instructions for its use.
Examples of defectively manufactured products include:
Reiner, Slaughter & Frankel, LLP, has obtained more than $600 million for our clients– including clients who have been injured by defective products. We have built a reputation for handling the most complex and high stakes personal injury lawsuits involving catastrophic injury, permanent disability, disfigurement, or wrongful death.
If you need our help, don’t hesitate to reach out. It costs nothing to speak with us, and what you tell us is confidential.
