Top 3 Reasons to Hire a Product Liability Lawyer

Due to the prevalence of lawsuits in this country, most Americans probably have some understanding of the term “product liability.” Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and anyone else responsible for making products available to the public are held accountable for injuries caused by those products.

This is an important field of law because people are injured every day by products that they believed to be safe. You may even have been injured by a product that was approved for commercial distribution and that you had every right to believe was safe. Of course, there is always the possibility of a company being sued by a customer who injured himself as a result of his own poor judgment or misdeeds, but happened to be using the product at the time. To make sure justice is served to the deserving party, here are the top three reasons you should hire a product liability lawyer if you live in New Hampshire.

1. You have been injured or caused property damage by a product and you believe the responsibility lies with the manufacturer. The range of products and the damage can vary. Some examples of when you could sue for product liability include:

* You buy an over-the-counter medicine that makes you sick. The sickness is not related to any possible side effects warned about on the product label.
* You place your infant in a car seat that does not work properly. In this case the product malfunction will likely lead to injury.
* A playground set, whether on public property or a set that you bought yourself, injures a child. The child’s parents or guardians will have a pretty strong product liability case as long as the child was not using the equipment improperly.
* A car part unexpectedly stops working, resulting in injury. The malfunction must be a result of some sort of manufacturing defect – if the brakes stop working because you have completely worn out the brakes, then you cannot hold the company responsible.
* Your new oven burns down your house. Again, this must be due to poor manufacturing. If your house is burnt down because you put some sort of flammable substance in the oven and caused an explosion, that is not the manufacturer’s fault.

2. A product from your company caused an injury. Regardless of whether you or not you are at fault, you will want to hire a New Hampshire product liability attorney. Product liability is serious, and representing yourself could be a very bad idea if you have no experience as a lawyer. You would not want to misfile a piece of paperwork or make a basic mistake in some other document and end up costing yourself the trial.

3. You own a factory or office building where someone is injured. While you may also require a New Hampshire premises liability lawyer, the problem may simply be a product liability case. If a worker is injured on your assembly line, it could simply be a case of product liability rather than premise liability. In that case, the blame would go to the manufacturer of the assembly line equipment rather than you.