Personal Injuries Involving Deffective Products.

By Brad Stewart


If you have experienced a personal injury due to a defective product, it be that you are considering the pursuit of a personal injury claim. You may be wondering exactly who it is that is responsible for the defects of the product in question.

* Could it be the designer, because the creation was not designed well enough to perform the tasks for which it was marketed and sold?

* Perhaps it is the manufacturer, because they created and assembled the item without proper testing and ensuring its capability of performing safely as intended?

* Or on the other hand, it could be the distributors and wholesalers, who sold the products, without ensuring that the merchandise they were selling was marketable, safe and capable of performing as intended?

The truth is:

Every single one of the individual entities listed above can be made liable for a defective product that has caused injury to someone.

People today have come to rely upon the details provided to us by various designers, manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers. It is expected that when we buy a product, it will give us safe, sturdy dependable service. We also have come to rely upon them to provide us with detailed instructions for safely using the merchandise, and we rely upon them to provide us with honest representations of any limitations of the products that they are offering for sale.

Each of the parties in the chain of product distribution owes the buying public a duty of care and due diligence. Products are expected to be well tested through rigorous quality assurance measures, before being approved for sale to the public. This may include vigorous safety testing as well as experimentation techniques that test the boundaries and durability of a product. These testing phases also help reveal any limitations of a product along with the threats that that may arise if the product is used improperly or designed below standard to properly perform the function it was designed. Sometimes misinformation is not completely uncommon, or we sometimes learn about deliberate omissions of negative results that were obtained during the various testing phases of a product. Many companies have been discovered sweeping aside negative details pertaining to their products beneath the proverbial rug.

In the United States, we have rigid standards, when it comes to lead based paints and drywall products that emit fumes, corrode wiring and, essentially, render a home an unlivable safety hazard. We also have stringent regulations that are supposed to prevent the prescribing of medications and the implantation of medical devices that do not meet or exceed the standards of U.S. safety regulations as set forth by the FDA. However, we have seen, in just the past few years, a number of defective products, unsafe medications and faulty medical devices released into the American market, where they have caused substantial damages, significant injuries and the loss of lives.

As consumers today, we have witnessed instances of faulty brake systems, defective seat belts, exploding tires and malfunctioning airbags that have brought death destruction to our roadways. We have seen family members suffer through the pain of defective artificial hips, flawed pacemakers and deficient defibrillators - some of us have even seen loved ones die, due to these substandard products.

If you or a loved one has been injured or suffered due to a defective product, get in touch with a personal injury attorney. Statues of limitations can leave little time to file suit, and time is always of the essence, when negligence is involved. Designers, manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers can all be made liable for your injuries, or the injuries of your loved ones. In terms of commercial goods, it is only necessary to prove that the merchandise was, in fact, faulty in order to prove liability.

So, if you suspect that you or a loved one was injured, due to substandard merchandise, pick up the phone and contact a defective product attorney today.




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