St. Louis Product Liability Attorney
St. Louis Product Liability Attorney – Hello again. Tom here, and this section of the website is dedicated to the Law of Product Liability. So, let’s start at the beginning. What is product liability? A product liability lawsuit occurs when an injury or death happens from a defective product. So, what is a defective product? You should know that this is a question many lawyers who claim to handle personal injury cases cannot answer correctly. To answer correctly you need to know three things. There are three categories that cover the “defective products”. A product can be defective because: ONE: The product has a manufacturing defect when the product departs from its intended design even though all possible care was exercised in the preparation and marketing of the product. In other words, the product failed because there was a manufacturing defect. So someone builds or assembles a product incorrectly, leaves a component out, or installs a part wrong rendering the product unreasonably dangerous. A very simple example would be a car that has been delivered but with only one lug nut…an accident waiting to happen. TWO: The product contains a design defect that renders it unreasonably dangerous when the harm created by the product could have been reduced or eliminated completely by a reasonable alternative design. This refers to another type of manufacturing defect. In this case, a part is manufactured out of specifications and suddenly fails while in use. Or, a material is substituted that weakens the design …
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