Personal Injury Law - Product Liability

You Need To Know

Product Liability

Consumers have a right to expect the products they buy to be safe and to work as intended. When they don't, things can go seriously wrong, and people can be hurt.

When a manufacturer or seller of a dangerous or defective product is held accountable for injuring a consumer, it's called products liability. In fact, anyone who exposes a consumer to the dangers of a defective product - from the maker of the product, or its component parts, to the wholesaler and retailer - can be held responsible for that product and the injuries it causes.

Products can be defective in several ways:
IN DESIGN.This means the manufacturer developed and designed the product with a defect.
IN MANUFACTURING. This is when a product is not made or assembled correctly-something went wrong in the manufacturing process.
IN MARKETING. This is the case when products are not marketed with the necessary labels or accompanied by sufficient instructions for use, or if the manufacturer fails to warn consumers about dangerous aspects of the product.

Basically, the law states that every product should meet "the ordinary expectations" of a consumer. It should work as intended, and it should not put the consumer at risk for injury from hidden dangers. Those responsible for making and supplying defective products are held by the law to be responsible for the injuries they cause.

If you or someone close to you has been injured by a defective product, consider contacting Terrell Hogan today.

Verdicts & Settlements

Undisclosed settlement with drug manufacturer in wrongful death claim for defective pain medication. (Chris Shakib)

Six figure settlement with large retailer for defective articulating ladder.(Chris Shakib)

$750,000 recovery for the family of a 64 year old woman who died two weeks after being overcome with mastic fumes from floor tiling at her workplace. (Alan Pickert).

$375,000.00 Settlement. Recovery against a manufacturer of asbestos-containing joint compound for client who developed an asbestos-related illness. (Alan Pickert,Anita Pryor)

$1,146,000.00 Settlement. Twelve victims injured by defective hip and knee prosthetics manufactured by Sulzer. (Anita Pryor)

$900,000.00 Settlement. Wrongful death case resulting from exposure to dangerous product. (Evan Yegelwel and Carroll Cayer)

$1,000,000.00 Settlement. Wrongful death resulting from defective product. (Evan Yegelwel, Alan Pickert, and Anita Pryor)

Wayne Hogan was among the trial lawyers representing the State of Florida in its historic lawsuit against the cigarette industry on behalf of Florida's taxpayers and children.

$300,000.00 Settlement. Head injury on defective stairway. (Michael Sharrit

$650,000 Settlement Defective Product: defective engine fan, which broke apart, causing a fan blade to strike the victim in the neck. (Chris Burns)

High Seven-Figure Settlement a child was ejected from a vehicle when a tire blew out, resulting in brain injuries and tetraplegia. The manufacturer produced defective tires, and the tire service company should have recognized the impending tire failure. (Chris Burns and Mark Calvin)

$85,000 Settlement: Products Liability: action regarding a defective saw causing hand injury. (Leslie A. Goller)

$1,100,000.00 Settlement. Personal injury of shipyard employee. (Alan Pickert)

Seven-Figure Settlement. Leading to workplace fatality. Recovery against crane manufacturer (Michael Sharrit)

$3,500,000.00 Settlement. After Jury Selection. For victims injured by defective machinery. (Alan Pickert, Anita Pryor, Evan Yegelwel) 

$201,470.00 Verdict. Falling machinery at K-Mart causing fractured vertebrae. (Carroll Cayer)