PRODUCT LIABILITY COMPENSATION CLAIMS SOLICITORS

Our specialist personal injury solicitors deal with product liability compensation claims using the risk free no win no fee scheme. Compensation is paid in full with no deductions. No finance is required and win or lose there is no charge. For qualified no nonsense advice with no charge and without further obligation just call the helpline.

Manufacturers have a legal responsibility for the safety to their consumers. When consumers are injured or harmed by a product while using it in its intended manner, the manufacturers, wholesalers, designers, retailers and anyone involved with the product being sold to the consumer may be liable to pay damages in a product liability compensation claim. These cases may involve strict liability, negligence, breach of warranty, or misrepresentation and can arise as a result of a dangerous product, a drug recall or a defectively installed medical device. Legal action for product liability compensation claims can be taken as a result of failure to provide warnings when knowledge of hazardous products exists, failing to ensure that a defective or malfunctioning part is not used in products or failing to warn when a fault exists that makes the product unsuitable for the purposes for which it was sold.

Product liability compensation claims fall into four main categories which are :-

Defective Design :-

The product is inherently dangerous as a result of poor or inadequate design. Whilst some designs are clearly inadequate others can produce complex and difficult legal argument particularly in high value in product liability compensation claims.

Defective Manufacture :-

This is usually as a result of a quality control failure when a product or batch does not conform to the usual specification. Manufacturers are ‘strictly liable’ in some product liability compensation claims as a result of defective manufacture and an injured consumer may, in certain circumstances, find it unnecessary to prove that they were negligent.

Defective Warnings :-

Are the warnings accurate and up to date and does the product information accurately reflect any dangers or risks associated with the product, or have they been contradicted by statements in advertising or made by sales representatives?

Negligent Surveillance :-

Companies must respond adequately when inherent defects come to light, subsequent to sale of the product, to warn consumers about the product's lack of safety. This may involve personal contact by letter or phone, advertisements in the press and other media and bill boards or A boards outside the retailers shop or premises.

Product liability compensation claims require specialist legal knowledge and experience. If you are the innocent victim of a dangerous or substandard product or as a result of a drugs recall or a medical device failing to meet a reasonable standard of safety you may be able to recover compensation for any personal injury sustained during normal usage. If you would like free advice on product liability compensation claims using the no win no fee scheme just use the helpline or complete the contact form and a member of the Law Society panel of personal injury experts will speak to you on the telephone without further obligation.