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Products Liability/Defective Design Lawyer

Products Liability/Defective Design Cases

Products liability/product defect refers to personal injury claims involving design defects, manufacturing defects, or marketing defects in products.  While the definition of “product” is quite broad to include real estate and even pets, most products liability claims involve asbestos, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and other health products, and motor vehicles.   product liability
     Product defect/product liability case are generally premised on one of three claims: negligence, breach of warranty, and strict liability in tort. Products cases sounding in negligence are simple: the failure to do what an ordinary, reasonable manufacturer should have done. Breach of warranty is a contract action. Strict liability in tort, in Maryland and elsewhere, is a remedy designed to remedy the unfair results that occured when injury victims were limited to negligence or breach of warranty claims for injuries caused by a defective and unreasonably dangerous products.

    Strict liability does not mean that your can automatically recover if you are injured by a product. Your lawyer still must prove that the product was defective. But what it does mean you do not need to prove any specific act of negligence on the part of the seller. Instead, your lawyer must prove that the product was defective at the time it left the control of the seller. Accordingly, in order to recover compensatory damages under a strict liability theory in Maryland, the plaintiffs' lawyers must prove:

(1) that the product was in a defective condition at the time it left the possession or control of the seller;
 
(2) that it was unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer;
 
(3) that the defect was a cause of the injuries;
 
(4) that the product was expected to and did reach the consumer without substantial change in its condition.

Every year, thousands of people are killed by dangerous drugs, medical devices or defective products that should not have been placed placed in the market because they were not safe. If you or someone you love has been killed or injured using a drug or product, our product defect lawyers will investigate the product and determine whether it caused you injury as the result of a design defect, manufacturing defect, or marketing defect (usually involving failure to provide an adaquate warning or some other improper labeling). In most cases, we have already done the necessary investigation because most product liabilty cases our lawyers see that cause serious injury or death we have seen before.

Our Maryland defective products lawyers are reviewing both individual and class action lawsuits in the Baltimore-Washington area and, for some products, throughout the country.  If you want to discuss your case with one of our products liability lawyers or get information on a particular class action lawsuit pending, call us at 800-553-8082 or click here for a free Internet consultation.  

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