What Makes Product Liability Law Firms Successful

05 Jul What Makes Product Liability Law Firms Successful

Filing a product liability claim oftentimes means going up against a corporation that has vast resources to bring to its defense. Any lawyer can file a product liability lawsuit. What you need to make sure of is that the lawyer you select to file your product liability claim is one who has actually worked on these cases before and who stands a chance of winning it.

Suing

Whenever you file a lawsuit, there’s no guarantee that you will win. What a lawyer can do, however, is plead your case to the jury in a way that elicits their sympathy and that explains to them how you are injured because of the manufacturer putting a defective product on the market. To get an idea of how these attorneys make these cases work for their clients, you have to understand a bit about what a defective product is.

A defective product is one that has some flaw in its manufacture, in its design or its advertising that leads to an injury. The injury doesn’t necessarily have to be physical. For example, if you purchased a space heater that proved to be faulty in a way that led to a fire that destroyed your house, you would certainly be looking at a case where you had a good reason to sue for damages. Of course, a defective product that causes injury has to have been used correctly at the time it failed.

To use the space heater example again, if you happen to have piled your laundry on top of the space heater and left it turned on, there would really be no way that you could say that the manufacturer was responsible for the fire. You have to have been using the product as directed in order for you to have a legitimate reason to file a product liability lawsuit.

Product liability claims sometimes result in very large jury awards and settlements. A settlement is when the party you are suing comes forward and offers you a sum of money so that they can avoid going to court and all of the costs associated with it. Be wary of companies that approach you with settlement offers before you’ve even found an attorney. In these cases, they’re probably worry that you’re going to find an attorney and end up getting far more money by relying on them for their legal expertise in the matter.