New York – New Jersey Product Liability

 

Product Liability occurs with any manufactured product. It would be impossible to count the sheer number of products in the world since they number in the millions. Yet the one thing most products have in common is that if misused, modified, defective, improperly designed or manufactured fail to carry adequate warnings, they may cause injuries or even death.

Those who manufacturer, distribute or sell a product may be held liable for injuries or deaths caused by that product if it was “defective” in one (or more) of the following ways: (1) The product was defectively designed thereby each individual product is defective ; (2) There was a manufacturing defect where only one or some of the product is defective in terms of the way it was made; and (3) The product failed to carry any, or adequate, warnings about dangers posed by the product or how to use the product correctly. Improper warnings may also include warnings that are too complicated or difficult to understand, too small or located in a place that is not easy to see, or where the warnings are only in English despite the fact it was foreseeable the product would be used by non-English speaking people.

Defective products can be divided into a four major categories:

  • Consumer Products
  • Commercial Products
  • Unsafe Drugs (Pharmaceutical Products)
  • Defective Medical Devices

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