Product Liability Attorneys

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, manufacturers recall between 200 and 300 products each year because they are defective or dangerous. Many of these recalls involve children's products and toys. Other products that are recalled due to defects or dangerous conditions include automobiles, tires, furniture, household appliances, tools, and safety equipment such as smoke detectors and fire alarms. When such products fail because of defects, they can cause serious injuries, including brain injury, spinal cord injury, paralysis, blindness, scarring, pain, suffering, and even death. If you've been injured due to a defective product, contact our expert product liability lawyers.

 

In Florida, the law allows persons who suffer injuries from defective products to recover for medical expenses, lost wages, wrongful death, and other damages. The types of claims for which injured persons and their families may recover are as follows:

 

Design Defects. A product may be defective or dangerous because the seller or distributor could have reduced or avoided a foreseeable risk of harm to consumers inherent in the current design by using an alternative design.

 

Manufacturing Defects. Even if a product is properly designed, it may be defective or dangerous because of poor-quality materials or shoddy workmanship in the manufacturing process.

 

Failure to warn or inadequate warning. Products that were designed and manufactured properly may nevertheless be defective or dangerous if they contain imperfections, even if such imperfections were not obvious by reasonable inspection.

Sellers, distributors, and/or manufacturers may be liable to Florida consumers injured due to products that were defectively designed or manufactured, or contained insufficient warnings on the grounds of negligence, strict liability, or breach of warranty.

 

Negligence claims generally involve the failure of a legal duty or obligation to design, make, or sell products that are safe for the public, or to properly warn consumers of any foreseeable risks of injury.

 

Strict liability claims, on the other hand, only require a showing that the product is unsafe and caused injury.

 

In claims for breach of warranty, the injured consumer must prove that the product caused injury through a failure of something included in the manufacturer’s warranty.