People can sustain injuries when their vehicle’s airbag explodes in their face, when they take a prescription medication with dangerous side effects, when they use a machine that lacks safety guards, and other circumstances that occur every day throughout the country. At Mezrano Law Firm, a Mobile product liability lawyer protects our client's rights to recover compensation for their injuries and losses.
When manufacturers create and build products for consumer use, they owe a duty of care to the end user to make a product that will be safe and that will work according to how it is supposed to work. People are injured every day from using defective products. Product liability is an aspect of personal injury law that deals with how those injured from using a defective product can hold the product's manufacturer, distributor, retailer, and any other entity in the chain of commerce liable for their injuries.
The three different types of product defects for product liability claims include:
In an injury case, the plaintiff has the burden of proof. This means that the plaintiff must prove that the product was defective and that the defect was the direct cause of their injury.
The following are just a few examples of defective products that have caused severe injuries or death. Some of the people who these products have injured filed lawsuits against the manufacturers and won settlements or jury verdicts for their injuries:
Defective automotive products
Dangerous children's toys and furniture
Defective tools and equipment
Defective home appliances
Defective firearms
Defective medical devices
Dangerous drugs
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Depending on the product and the nature of the defect, there are different categories of product liability, including:
Strict liability, which says that the product was defective, the defective product injured the plaintiff, so the manufacturer must pay damages to the plaintiff for their injuries.
Negligence cases focus more on what the manufacturer did (or failed to do). The plaintiff is required to prove:
Breach of warranty is a product liability category based on the contract between the defendant and the plaintiff. The two aspects of breach of a warranty include:
Product liability injury cases can be complicated to prove. Depending on the type of product that caused your injury, there may be a class action, a mass tort, or a multi-district lawsuit. You might join a class action: many plaintiffs with the same complaint against the same defendant. If the case succeeds, the plaintiff class divides the proceeds equally after deducting attorney fees and expenses.
A mass tort involves a group of individual plaintiffs, often from the same geographic area and a smaller number than for a class action. Instead of having the same complaint as with a class action, with a mass tort, each plaintiff might have slightly different injuries, as with defective drugs or medical devices. The Agent Orange exposure cases in the 1970s and the silicone breast implant injury cases in the 1980s were mass tort cases.
A multidistrict lawsuit (MDL) often occurs when many individual lawsuits are filed against the same manufacturer, often in defective drug or medical device cases. The court consolidates the cases into an MDL to economize and more efficiently process the pre-trial and discovery stages of the issues, after which they are returned to their original court for trial. Each case wins or loses on its own merits, and the plaintiff keeps whatever the jury awards them, fewer attorney fees and court costs.
A Mobile product liability lawyer knows how to navigate the complexities of the civil justice system for you. You will fare much better in your pursuit of justice when you benefit from a Mobile products liability lawyer by your side. We are here to investigate your case, work with a medical expert when necessary to interpret your medical records, and gather the evidence required to draw a line of causation between the defective product and your injury.
A defective product lawyer will advocate for you. We negotiate with the insurance companies to come to a fair settlement of your case, but at the same time we are always prepared to take your case to trial should that be required to get the compensation you deserve.
When a person becomes injured because of a defective product and discovers that they might have grounds for legal action, they may have unrealistic ideas about how much compensation they may recover. At the beginning of an injury claim case, there is no way to know how much it might settle for or how much a jury’s verdict might be.
Once your injury has healed and you can see how it will have an impact on your lifestyle and your ability to work, once you know the number of your medical expenses and how much time you lost at work, we will have a better idea about the value of your case.
If your case is successful, the following are the different types of compensation you might recover:
We strive to inspire confidence in our clients that we are committed to fighting for maximum compensation.
If you or someone you care about has suffered a severe injury because of a defective product, you can schedule a free consultation to discuss your case with a Mobile product liability lawyer today.
At Mezrano Law Firm, our Mobile product liability lawyers have more than 40 years of combined experience fighting for the rights of their clients to revoke compensation after a defective product injured them. We serve clients throughout Alabama.