NEW YORK PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER - PRODUCT LIABILITY

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Brooklyn Accident Lawyer)

"Product liability" is legalese for a type of personal injury lawsuit for a defective product. When a consumer is hurt in an accident due to a defective product, the fault can rest with a manufacturer, distributor, supplier or retailer of a product. If you have been victim to faulty design, incorrect or missing instructions or warnings that lead to you getting hurt attempting to use the product, you need to contact an defective product or product liability injury attorney as soon as possible.

Many different kinds of products can be involved in product liability cases, including everything from food and drink to power tools to motor vehicles. If a device can break or be misused, it can injure you. And the injuries from defective products can be devastating: amputation or loss of a finger, hand, arm or leg, loss of vision or sight, burns, paralysis - either paraplegia or quadriplegia - or even death. Everyone makes mistakes, but when the mistakes are not yours, why should you be the one to pay for it?

There are three parts of a product liability case that you can attempt to handle on your own or hire a knowledgeable accident lawyer to help investigate your claim and answer your questions.

The first phase is proving that the fault of the injury is the manufacturer's or distributor's and not your own. This is the stage where many cases are dismissed because many accident victims misuse a product even though clear and complete instructions are present. Speaking with an injury attorney in your area of New York - be it Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx - before filing your claim, could save you a huge amount of trouble and inconvenience. If your case has validity, it can move on to the next phase.

The second part of a defective product or product liability case can help you get an even larger money damages award in court. This involves proving that another party was aware of a defect or problem with the product, but distributed the product anyway. This violates the guarantee among creators and distributors of goods that products will be safe to use in the manner in which they are intended to be used. Obviously mistreating a product and going against warning labels may leave you without a case. Your New York personal injury attorney can do the necessary research to uncover whether some person or company in the chain of distribution of the product knew about the flaw in its product or not.

Once all parts of the case have been determined to be valid -- that you actually have a case to work with -- your Brooklyn, Queens or Bronx accident attorney will handle the third portion, which is the actual filing of your claim. A well-qualified New York personal injury attorney will be able to collect all the necessary information to represent you effectively in court. Most lawyers or law firms will give you a free consultation, and investigate to determine if your case has merit and is worth pursuing.