Product Liability Law & Lawyers
Claims for injury or damage caused by defective products.
You are allowed to make a product liability claim against the manufacturer of a faulty product that can be shown to have caused you personal injury. This covers a wide range of products; including, but not limited to, electrical goods, cosmetics, toys, furniture, equipment and all other dangerous, unsafe or defective products and goods.
If you believe you have a product liability claim for compensation, then please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.
Product Liability Claims
The four main ways in which a manufacturer can be found to be at fault in a product liability claim are:
1. Manufacturing
If contamination has occurred in a factory or a batch of products has been damaged during the manufacturing process and the quality control procedure has not identified this and you have suffered injury as a result, the manufacturer is likely to be liable.
2. Design
If a product is poorly designed, such as a toy that has very sharp edges or a kettle that allows steam to escape around the handle, and you have sustained an injury as a result, you can make a product liability claim against the manufacturer.
3. Warnings
If a manufacturer fails to exhibit sufficient warnings on a product that is inherently dangerous, such as an electrical appliance, or a salesman has downplayed the warnings on such an item, then the company may well be found to be liable if you are injured as a result.
4. Failure to recall/announce warnings
If a manufacturer discovers a problem with a product that could cause personal injury and fails to announce warnings about the product and injury occurs as a result, a product liability claim could well be successful, if you are injured by the product.
If you believe you have a product liability claim for compensation, then please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.
Product liability claims are claims resulting from accidents caused by goods or products which have been supplied or work which has been carried out.
The types of accident which could result from defects in products are numerous and the following are some examples :-
- Fire or injury resulting from faulty electrical goods
- Injuries caused by by defective tools, knives and sharp or dangerous objects, etc
- Road accidents caused by defective parts or faulty workmanship during repair or servicing
- Food poisoning
- Damage to teeth by foreign bodies in food
- Injuries to children by unsafe toys
- Products may cause accidents for a variety of reasons - defective materials or workmanship, defects in design, inadequate or misleading warnings or instructions, defective containers or packaging.
Product Liability Compensation
Anyone manufacturing or selling goods or carrying out work (eg. building work, repair work) may find themselves responsible to pay compensation to consumers injured by their products. Such liability may be at Common Law or under Statute eg. the Sale Of Goods Act and the Consumer Protection Act have provisions specifically intended to make it less difficult for injured consumers to claim against suppliers of defective products.
If you have suffered an injury and would like to know whether you may be entitled to compensation please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.
If a business supplies products to consumers then they need to make sure those products are safe. Normally the responsibility falls square on the shoulders of the actual manufacturer of any product found to be defective. A manufacturer or producer can be a company that actually makes products, one that imports a product into this country or even businesses that customise other manufacturers products for their own stores. But stores and other retailers i.e. distributors also have responsibilities pertaining to the products that they sell on.
If you believe you have a product liability claim for compensation, then please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.
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If you have suffered an injury and would like to know whether you may be entitled to compensation please complete your free legal enquiry form on the right, or click here.
Product liability compensation claims fall into four main categories which are :-
Defective Design :-
The product is inherently dangerous as a result of poor or inadequate design. Whilst some designs are clearly inadequate others can produce complex and difficult legal argument particularly in high value in product liability compensation claims.
Defective Manufacture :-
This is usually as a result of a quality control failure when a product or batch does not conform to the usual specification. Manufacturers are "strictly liable" in some product liability compensation claims as a result of defective manufacture and an injured consumer may, in certain circumstances, find it unnecessary to prove that they were negligent.
Defective Warnings :-
Are the warnings accurate and up to date and does the product information accurately reflect any dangers or risks associated with the product, or have they been contradicted by statements in advertising or made by sales representatives?
Negligent Surveillance :-
Companies must respond adequately when inherent defects come to light, subsequent to sale of the product, to warn consumers about the product's lack of safety. This may involve personal contact by letter or phone, advertisements in the press and other media and bill boards or A boards outside the retailers shop or premises.
Some product liability areas and issues include:
• Pharmaceuticals and product liability
• Making a product liability claim
• Medical device product liability
• Misleading labels and product liability
• Beware faulty christmas presents
• Cadburys and salmonella scare
• Broken swings and product liability
• Faulty seatbelts and product liability
• Trampolining accident
• Food regulation and product liability
• AUSTRALIA Directive and product liability
• The fake goods market
• Breast implants
• Faulty lights could cause Christmas mayhem
• Product liability directive review
• Toys pose threat to hearing
• Hair dye compensation claims
• Silly and fraudulent no win, no fee claims
• Public liability and eye products
• Product liability defence
• Product liability claims for vehicle defects
• Product liability claims and farm produce
• The landmark product liability claim
• Business insurance and product liability claims
• Electrical injuries and product liability
• Product liability and tobacco
• Recall to avoid public liability claims
• Product liability and batteries
• AUSTRALIA-wide bicycle product liability standards
• Car tyres and product liability
• Product liability claims and AUSTRALIA law
• Product liability and small retailers
• Worst things found in food
• AUSTRALIA importers and product liability claims
• Recalls of Chinese goods and product liability law
• Grey market product liability
• Contaminated restaurant food
• Hired goods and compensation claims
• Product liability and LSD
• Strict product liability rules
• Product liability claims and co-branding
• CE Markings and product liability
• Product liability and nightwear
• Sofa product injury claims
• Product liability and equipment in gyms
• Product liability law and liquorice
• Smaller firms product liability danger
• Product liability claims and boats
• Popcorn requires a health warning
• Nanotechnology and product liability
• Electrical sockets in product liability
• Product liability claims and hoodies
• Carbon monoxide and product recalls
• Avoiding product liability claims with warnings
• Product liability claims and the new GM
• Product liability puts the vulnerable at risk
• 100 percent compensation and vaccines
• Who is responsible for product liability?
• Product liability and children's car seats
• Product liability claims in a recession
• Golf clubs in product liability boom
• Tiger loaf in product liability claim
• Product liability compensation and faulty ovens
• Product liability the sperm bank claim
• Fake medicines and product liability claim
• Product liability compensation and Christmas
• Compensation for faulty Christmas presents
• Producers' liability for defective products
• Carbon monoxide poisoning in a car
• Product liability claim and food poisoning
• The Christmas product liability claim risk
• Medical product liability and prosthetic limbs
• Product liability claim and faulty high chairs
• Product liability claims and SSRI heart defects
• Faulty product claims and accelerators
• More faulty product claims for Toyota
• Product liability compensation and faulty fan heaters
• Product liability compensation claim and electric gates
• Product liability claims and gas cookers
• Faulty product compensation and unforeseen risk
• Product liability claims and cosmetics
• Product liability claims and lobbying
• Segway accident claims
• Faulty product claim for tea lights
• Online buying and product liability claims
• Product liability claim for Chinese drywall
• Faulty product claims and the IPSLPA
• Product liability claim for World Cup merchandise
• Product liability on faulty computers
• Product liability claim for fast food toys
• Chromium-related product liability
• Laptop battery accident prevention
• Riding hats and faulty product claims
• Product liability law and second hand goods
• faulty product protection
• Faulty products claim for folding chairs
• product liability claims
• Product liability and car repairs
• Wheat bag fires and faulty product claims
• Product liability claim and faulty electrics
• Product liability claims and PR exercises
• Eggs and defective product compensation
• Possible sales push enabled by product recall
• Faulty soft toys and the CE mark
• O defect claim
• Product liability claim and poor labelling
• Drop-side cots and related faulty product injury claims
• Chinese sky lantern product liability claim
• Pushchair could lead to product liability claim
• Noise-induced hearing loss from food processing
• Biotechnology product liability claims
• When insurers make a product liability claim
• Acrylics, oil paints and product liability
• Product liability claim and fire-safe furnishings
• Defective items result in faulty product claims
• Faulty merchandise recalls and product liability claims
• Product liability can result from food date labels
• Product liability claim after cooker accident
• Product liability solicitors for RSI phone claims
• Online medical sales and product liability compensation
• Legal advice on e coli poisoning claim
• Product liability claim at hair salon
• Product liability laws in Australia protect consumers
• International product liability law
• 100% faulty product claims
• Product liability claim following faulty chair injury
• Product liability in hospitals
• Lighter faulty product injury claims
• Boots recalls and product liability claims
• Solicitors for food poisoning compensation
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