San Francisco Defective Product Attorneys
Thousands of unsuspecting people each year are injured or killed because of dangerous and defective products that should never have been sold. The lawyers of the Dolan Law Firm have represented numerous individuals injured by defective products with excellent results. If you have been hurt by a product, you may be entitled to recover damages from the manufacturer, distributor, seller and / or installer of the product. Likewise, if the product, such as a car, or other device, was recently repaired, that repair may have been done negligently leading to liability for your damages.
Defective Designs
Products are sometimes defective in their design: They have a design flaw that causes them to harm people who are using them like any reasonable consumer would expect to use a product. They may also be defective because of inadequate or nonexistent warnings of known risks of injury.
One example of a design defect is the Ford Pinto, which had a gas tank exposed to rear-end collisions. Other examples are:
- Tires that blow out
- Lawnmowers that have no protection from shooting rocks out of the side
- Nail guns that fire without being depressed on wood
- Circular saws with no guards
- Baking pans that collapse under the weight of a turkey
- SUVs that have too high of a center of gravity
- Helmets made out of plastic
- Defective medical products, implants and drugs
Unfortunately, many manufacturers put profits ahead of people and do not adequately test their products for safety.
Defective Manufacturing
Sometimes products are defective because of their manufacturing: The design may be fine, but the manufacturing process was done negligently, causing the product to become dangerous. This often happens with food products that are not processed properly and cause the spread of disease, or introduce foreign particles such as glass. Other examples include:
- Tires that are made with defective rubber that blow out and cause wrongful death and injury;
- Cars that are not assembled properly that crash when wheels fall off or engines blow up;
- Planes that crash;
- Glass in food,
- TV screens that explode,
- Hot tubs that short circuit, etc.
In one case handled by the lawyers of the Dolan Law Firm, a defendant’s vehicle had its tires blow out, causing loss of control and contact with our client’s vehicle. Our client suffered serious head injuries as a result. Head trial lawyer Christopher Dolan won a $650,000 settlement, including $550,000 from the tire manufacturer. (Visit our verdicts and settlements page to read about other cases handled by Chris Dolan and his team of lawyers.)
Our Lawyers Can Help
The Dolan law firm uses experts to investigate the cause of a product failure. We retain and employ metallurgists, mechanics, draftsman, machinists, accident reconstruction experts, physicists, rubber experts, scientists, chemists, doctors, designers, electricians, safety engineers and other experts to review these cases to identify what, if anything, about the product was defective.
IF YOU HAVE BEEN INJURED BY A PRODUCT, SAVE WHAT REMAINS OF THE PRODUCT AND ANY PACKAGING THAT CAME WITH THE PRODUCT IF YOU CAN. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU DO NOT DISCARD OR DESTROY THE PRODUCT AS THAT IS EVIDENCE CRITICAL TO EVALUATE YOUR CASE.
YOU HAVE A LIMITED TIME TO ACT OR YOUR RIGHTS MAY BE LOST. BE SURE TO CHECK IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON STATUTES OF LIMITATION.
Contact the lawyers at The Dolan Law Firm for a free case evaluation.
The Dolan Law Firm
1438 Market Street
San Francisco, California 94102
Phone: 415.421.2800
Toll Free: 888.424.5352
Fax: 415.421.2830
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San Francisco Defective Product Attorneys
