Florida Product Liability Lawyers

Some of the most common types of defective product lawsuits involve:

• Pharmaceuticals: Some of the worst harm done to consumers has been caused by dangerous pharmaceutical drugs that were often not tested well enough before being sold on the medical market. The side effects of a dangerous drug can be as severe as they are varied, such as heart failure or mental health difficulties.
• Medical devices: You might know someone who has been injured by a defective medical device due to the unfortunate commonality of such defects. External medical equipment like warning blankets and dialysis machines are considered medical devices, but so are surgically implanted devices like hip implants and pacemakers.
• Auto parts: Each year, auto manufacturers of all sorts announce new recalls for their vehicles. While many of these recalls are mandatory and do not involve dangerous defects, others do, like the infamous Takata airbag recall that affected millions of vehicles around the globe.
• Furniture: The furniture throughout your home could be dangerously defective due to its design. For example, IKEA has recalled millions of its dressers in recent years due to tip-over hazards.
• Appliances: Were you injured by an electrical defect in your television? Did the toaster in your kitchen start a fire? If a defective appliance caused you or a family member to suffer a serious injury, then our Florida defective product attorneys can help you manage a claim against the manufacturer.
• Baby products: Products sold to parents to help care for or entertain their children need to be absolutely safe. Even slight defects could pose a serious danger to an infant or toddler. We are proud to take the fight to product manufacturers for parents who are grieving after their child was injured by a defective product.

Identifying Product Defects in Your Injury Claim

How a product becomes defective is important to your injury claim. The source of the defect is often telling of what party is liable. Using our 75+ years of legal experience focused on complicated and catastrophic injury claims, we can investigate the product and its defect to determine what went wrong and why.

There are two ways a consumer product can become defective:

• By design: When a product is designed poorly, it is defective by design. For example, Takata airbags used an unstable chemical component to trigger the airbag’s inflation, causing the entire device to explode instead. Since the chemical component was incorrect for its intended purpose, the airbag was dangerous by design and never could have been considered safe for consumer use.
• By manufacturing error: When a product becomes dangerous at some point between the design process and it being sold at vendors, it is defective by manufacturing error. A manufacturing error can be as simple as forgetting a single screw during the assembly process of a piece of furniture or as complex as contamination of production materials that cause the product to cause harm, such as sulfur in Chinese produced drywall.

No matter what type of product hurt you, it is important that you hold onto the product and any packaging and instructions.

Preserve Evidence: Retain Defective Products & Packaging

No matter what type of product hurt you through a defect, it is important that you hold onto it and any packaging and instructions that came with it. If you report your injury to the product manufacturer, which will happen at least when you file your claim, then they will instruct you to send the product back to them for inspection and review. Do not relinquish the defective product to its manufacturer without first consulting with one of our attorneys.

The defective product will likely be the centerpiece of your injury claim against the manufacturer. If you send it to them, then you will place the strongest piece of evidence in the opposition’s hands and leave yourself with nothing.

 As the owner of the product, you are under no obligation to send them the product. At some point in your claim, it might make sense to allow the manufacturer to view the product eventually but leave it up to our product liability lawyers to decide when.

Discover your legal options with our Florida defective product Lawyers by calling (813) 993-1448 or contacting us online now.