Product Liability stories:
Family sues over Conn. woman's bathrobe fire death
Oct 28th, 2009 - Boston
HARTFORD, Conn.—The family of a Connecticut woman who died after her chenille bathrobe caught on fire while she was making tea has sued the retailer. Attorneys for the estate of 80-year-old Atwilda Brown filed a lawsuit last week in U.S...
Product Liability videos from YouTube:
5:07Aero-TV: Product Liability - Cirrus CEO at NBAA 2009
Brent Wouters Addresses the Continued Need for Product Liability Reform In the 1980s, the general aviation industry was brought to its knees by an explosion of product liability lawsuits. Industry representatives estimated that ...
2:53Products Liability
We have a right to expect the products we buy to be safe and work as intended. When they dont, things can go seriously wrong, and people can be hurt. When a manufacturer or seller of a dangerous or defective product is held accountable for injuring a consumer, its called products liability ...
1:48Clearwater Personal Injury Lawyer
Clearwater personal injury lawyers, Tragos and Sartes, have a press conference regarding the car accident regarding Nick Bollea and John Graziano in Clearwater, Florida. For more information, visit the firm's website www.clearwaterpersonalinjurylawyers ...
1:21Product Liability: Overview of Injury Claims
Manufacturers duty is to create products that are safe when used correctly. If you've been injured by use of unsafe/defective product, state & federal laws provide that you can sue manufacturer, distributor, retailer of a product for compensation injuries.
Product Liability from WikiPedia:
Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause.
In the United States, the claims most commonly associated with product liability are negligence, strict liability, breach of warranty, and various consumer protection claims. The majority of product liability laws are determined at the state level and vary widely from state to state. Each type of product liability claim requires different elements to be proven to present a successful claim.
There are three major types of product liability claims:
- manufacturing defect,
- design defect,
- a failure to warn.
However, in most states, these are not legal claims in and of themselves, but are pleaded in terms of the theories mentioned above. For example, a plaintiff might plead negligent failure to warn or strict liability for defective design.
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