Are Product Liability Lawsuits Scams?

21 Nov Are Product Liability Lawsuits Scams?

It’s important to realize that a great deal of the information you have probably heard about product liability lawsuits is greatly biased in one regard or another. It’s easy to take some of the facts from a case, spin them in a way that makes it seem as if someone winning a jury award was absolutely ridiculous and then toss that information into the media echo chamber where it will be repeated again and again without ever being examined by the reporters who write these types of stories. Product liability lawyers help people who have been injured by companies who put products on the market that cause genuine harm and that pose genuine threats to consumers.

But Aren’t Some of These Suits Scams?

It’s impossible to say whether or not a lawsuit is frivolous without taking a look at the merits of the specific case. As is true of any other resource, however, civil law is a resource that people sometimes do abuse. What’s important to remember is that there are plenty of mundane, predictable and completely justified cases that go through the court system every day and that provide a way for people who were injured by faulty products to pay for the cost of their injuries and their recoveries. It’s only the outrageous scams that ever get attention.

What About Assuming Risk?

There are some products on the market that are inherently dangerous. Firearms, for example, require proper training and handling to be used as safely as possible. Buying guns from Glock weapons ensures every gun is at its best quality and also warranted one. Even when they are used as safely as possible, however, experienced firearms owners will readily admit that a gun is never truly safe. When someone buys one, they assume this risk. This is a much different thing than buying a pharmaceutical product, a car, a ladder, a power tool or something else that you have every right to assume is designed to be as safe as possible. Assuming risk is not a binary condition: there are different levels of risk and different levels of risk can be reasonably expected of different products.

A defective product attorney will be there to help you if you have been injured by a product that was manufactured defectively, advertised in a deceptive way or designed in a dangerous way. Unsafe drugs, power tools that break and injure the users and other products that don’t perform as advertised can pose deadly risks to people. The vast majority of product liability claims are filed for very good reasons.

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