Introduction
Sargenti Paste, an electric blanket, and a pneumatic nail gun, what do these things have in common? To the Claunch Law Firm each of these items represented a product liability lawsuit. Maybe you or a member of your family has been injured by a product that you bought and the product was defective and caused someone to be injured. Many times we accept the small losses and the minor injury, but if serious injury or death occurs because a product is defective, you may want to see a lawyer. At the Claunch Law Firm we welcome your call, and we will be glad to discuss your case with you.
The Law Governing Defective Products
The law says that a product can be defective because of a design defect, a manufacturing defect or marketing defect. Negligence law and strict liability or theories of law that are important when we talk about product liability. It is our job to know the law. You will need to tell us how the person was injured by the product.
Factors that effect a Product Liability case
Product liability cases are expensive and costly lawsuits. This is true because it is necessary to hire one or more expert witnesses to examine the product and testify. The fees of the expert are such that only cases involving serious injury or death can be tried because of the economics involved.
Crashworthiness
Every day someone dies in an automobile accident. In some cases more than one automobile is involved. In other cases, only one automobile will be involved. It might be a young mother in her motor vehicle taking the children to school whose motor vehicle rolls over when she swerves to miss a dog. One of the children, a young girl is killed. Everyone else survives with little or no injury. The mother subsequently finds out that the seat belt did not work correctly on the seat in which the girl was sitting who was killed. This might be a case that the mother would want to hire a lawyer. This kind of case is a "Crashworthiness case".
The Claunch Law Firm is interested in pursuing these kind of cases. If you are in such a situation, please call us.