Product Liability

Involving either a personal injury or a monetary loss, considerations in a product liability case often include:

• Manufacturing quality
• Design
• Material failure
• Negligent actions
• Assumption of risk
• Instructions and warnings

Each case is unique and handled on its own merits, although there are common approaches utilized in each investigation. These include:

• Product research, including similar products with similar issues
• Obtaining exemplars
• Theory of failure, including the effects of the environment in which the product was used, the actions of individuals and performance of machines
• Testing and collection of data
• Validation or refute of the theory of failure