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Companies that design and sell such products may be responsible if a death is caused through the use of a defective or defective product. Learn more about your legal options if your loved one dies from a failed device by speaking with a product liability attorney.
Our lawyers are experts when dealing with complicated product liability matters including wrongful deaths cases within the state of Florida. Our attorneys have the extensive expertise necessary for analyzing the specifics related to a case, along with designing the product that failed in some manner during production. Sometimes, the negligent nature combined with a breakage in certain regulations led to an early demise in your loved one’s case.
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Death by Accident Examples of Defective Products
An estimated 12.7 million people will be treated in emergency departments in 2022 from injuries caused by consumer products. Many of these injuries originate from products that we consider safe. However, it is even worse that it happens to both older adults and children. These risks lurk in ordinary things such as TVs, cleaning solutions for homes, and beds.
Fatal accidents are caused due to defective products of various kinds.
Automobile Parts: A faulty design or a flawed manufacturing process in automobile parts like brakes, airbags, and tyres may lead to fatal accidents. A tyre blowout due to a manufacturing defect is liable to kill people.
Dangerous Chemicals: Products that contain harmful chemicals can cause very dangerous results. Some chemicals can cause severe health problems and lead to death. Companies selling products with harmful chemicals inside them have been sued. These companies include makeup, hair relaxers, and baby powder. Tobacco companies have been sued by product liability for selling cigarettes for decades without providing any reasonable warning about their dangerous health risks, which resulted in thousands of deaths.
Prescription Medication: Drugs prescription drugs and harmful medicines are a part of many Florida product liability issues. The patients injured or suffered from serious side effects can take legal action. Most of these cases are on grounds of failure to adequately warn the patient, defectively designed or failure to provide adequate information regarding risks.
Electrical Devices: Faulty circuitry or wiring in electrical devices or appliances can be dangerous. They may malfunction, catch fire, and even explode without warning. This may result in fatal accidents.
Medical Products/Equipment: defect or failure of a life-supporting device such as a pacemaker, medical implants, and prostheses. The danger may present a fatal accident with product failure and defects in its equipment in the life-supporting devise for patients.
Consumer Products: Even seemingly innocuous consumer products can cause death owing to design or manufacturing errors. Domestic equipment, door and window blinds, toys, and power tools are some examples of dangerous items that cause fatal accidents.
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The Most Common Types Of Product Defects
There are three main types of defects that usually bring about product liability suits. These are as follows:
Design Flaws: design flaws refer to flaws in the actual design of the product itself. It simply means that safer options for the product design did exist but were not developed. The design defects may be so severe that they require a mass recall to prevent more injuries or fatal accidents.
Manufacturing Defects: Manufacturing defect occur during assembly or production. These defects are not indicative of a flawed design. However, they do indicate that a manufacturing defect has occurred, which makes the product defective. Note that some products with the same design might not have these defects.
Who Is Liable for a Defective Product Causing Wrongful Death?
If the accident was fatal, the liability will also extend to include:
- The manufacturer
- Specific product component manufacturers, like the airbag in a car
- The entity that is responsible for the assembly of the product
- Wholesalers who are involved in the distribution process
- Direct sellers of the product to consumers
The actual facts of the case will determine liability in any product liability claim. Your attorney will be able to identify who is liable in a wrongful-death claim once the defect or defects that caused the fatal accident are identified. They can then trace the fault and build the basis for a wrongful death claim.
Call Us at the Law Firm When a Loved One Was Fatally Involved in an Accident Due to Faulty Products
The our lawyer has to work diligently in placing liability on a party supplying good or service, which include distributor or manufacturer. The attorney has to identify the person who stands to benefit often because they are the spouse of deceased. Children or other persons were likely to rely on care that came by dead person. This will ascertain these people get justice and claim just compensation to alleviate them financial hardships occasioned for example by wrongful death.
Our services are accessible to all clients in every region in Florida. Our offices are based in Lakewood Ranch, Florida.
If you lost a loved one because of a product failure, you should get in touch with W. Lee Clark & Associates for a free case evaluation. We will review your facts and determine if you have a valid wrongful death claim. Feel free to call us at (941) 207-7477 at any time. You may also fill out our online form.
