Product Liability

Product Liability encompasses a number of legal claims that allow an injured party to redeem financial compensation from the manufacturer or seller of a product. This 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.
Claims most commonly associated with product liability are negligence, strict liability, breach of warranty, and various consumer protection claims.

Products Liability claim usually falls into one of three possible types:

° Those claiming a design defect
° Those claiming a manufacturing defect
° Those claiming a failure to warn

Dangerous or defective product claims may succeed even when products were used incorrectly by the consumer, as long as the incorrect use was foreseeable by the manufacturer.

The difficulties of an injured customer to prove what a manufacturer did or did not do during the design or manufacture of product has led to the development of newer product liability claims such as strict liability. To file a basic negligence claim you need to prove a duty owed, a breach of that duty, that the breach caused the plaintiff's injury, and an injury itself.

If you suffered from a manufacturer's negligence, a design defect or a failure to warn, you need to file a negligence claim with the help of a knowledgeable and persistent Personal Injury attorney. Contact Lloyd J. Nadel and his legal team at
(877) NY LAW 50 for immediate help.