Sacramento Product Liability Attorneys

Defective Products and Liability Lawyers in Sacramento

Each year thousands of people in the United States are injured, burned, disfigured or even killed as a result of defective or dangerous products. Laws exist to protect consumers and allow them to seek compensation when they suffer personal injury or other damage due to product malfunction. The laws vary from state to state, and in Sacramento, California, the time limit for filing suit in a products liability case is within two years from the time the injuries were or should have been discovered. Our lawyers take these cases seriously, and are committed providing the best representation possible. Winning a case not only allows the client to collect monetary damages for medical treatment and lost income, but also protects others from using an unsafe product in the future. When  you work with a Sacramento product liability attorney at our firm, we will fight to help you get the compensation you deserve.

Product Liability & Manufacturer Responsibility

The product manufacturer is responsible for creating and marketing products that are safe and pose no threat or hazard to the public. Product liability laws hold the designer or manufacturer responsible for defects in the design, manufacture and labeling of the product. Additionally, they are liable for any harm that occurs as a result of their product. Under the law of strict liability it is not necessary to establish negligence as a factor; it must only be proven that the product was defective in design or produced in such a way that caused it to be unreasonably dangerous when used as it was intended. A lawyer may be able to help you prove that you were not responsible in your accident and that it was the manufacturer’s fault under strict liability laws.

Products that may be potentially dangerous range from prescription drugs to SUVs, from cookware to baby cribs, from children’s toys to airplanes. The defective product may be the subject of a product recall or this may have been an isolated incident with one item. Defects could be in the form of faulty brakes in the family car, food improperly handled and packaged, insufficient or missing warning labels, faulty manufacturing equipment which causes injury to the operator in the plant, improper or incomplete directions for product use, faulty wiring in an electrical appliance … the list is virtually endless.

Sacramento Accident and Injury Attorneys

When working with a client in Sacramento on a personal injury case involving products liability, our attorneys start by gathering and sorting through the details to determine the exact cause of the injuries. They plan the best course of action to take, looking it over from the perspective of a products liability case, with the ultimate goal of helping the client win the case and collect the highest settlement possible to cover the medical costs and other monetary damages that have been suffered.