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Product Liability
We represent victims seriously injured by products that
have been defectively designed, manufactured, or marketed to the public
in a manner that exposes consumers to unreasonable risks. If you have
been involved in an accident under circumstances in which you believe
that a defective product may be involved, it is important that you take
the following steps:
1. Preserve the product for subsequent analysis;
2. Retain any owner’s or instruction manuals and proof of purchase;
and
3. Consult with an attorney as soon as possible.
In the typical course of a product liability case, we
will retain one or more experts to examine the defective product for design
or manufacturing flaws. In addition, experts may be consulted to consider
whether the product was marketed in a manner that exposed the consumer
to unreasonable risks, such as by failing to include necessary safety
and operation information in the instruction manual. We incur the often
substantial expense of retaining these experts. As in all of our cases,
the client is only responsible for paying our fees and costs in the event
of a settlement or a judgment in the client’s favor.
As of March of 2004, the U.S. Consumer Product Commission
had reported the recall of over 4,000 different types of products, recall
of products. The Commission maintains a directory of these recalls sorted
by product, type, and company and product description, on its website
at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.html.
However, this list only constitutes a fraction of the total number of
potentially defective products that have been placed on the market, as
it only covers products whose flaws have already come to the attention
of manufacturers and involved serious enough concerns about safety to
mandate a recall.
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