Texas Defective Product Lawyer: How do dangerous or defective products make it into consumer’s hands?

If you’ve been hurt by a dangerous product, you may be upset and want to know how something like this could happen to you. Unfortunately, you are not alone. Every year men, women and children in Texas and across the U.S. are injured by dangerous, defective or unsafe products – some victims are even killed.

How can this happen in this day and age?

• Products can be DESIGNED improperly. If the initial design for a product is flawed, there are problems before it is even manufactured or shipped out for sale. Product design flaws mean that every product produced following that design will be flawed, so the problem will be widespread.
• Products can be MADE improperly. Even if the design for a product is flawless, if it is not created and assembled correctly in the factory, it can be unsafe. Manufacturing defects typically don’t affect as many products as design defects, but the results can be just as serious.
• Products can lack adequate WARNINGS or important INFORMATION. If a product is well-designed and correctly made, it can still be used incorrectly by a consumer if it does not come with proper warnings and instructions. Imagine if a car seat was sold without adequate directions for use – it is unlikely that parents would install and use the seat properly without the right instructions. Manufacturers must also warn consumers about the potential dangers of using their product. If they don’t, they can be held accountable.

When product defects happen, please know that as a consumer you have rights. Product liability laws allow every person in the product supply chain to be held accountable for letting a dangerous or defective product make it into a consumer’s hands. Product designers, parts suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers and more can be held accountable for your injuries.

Help for the families of those injured or killed by a dangerous or defective product

Please contact our Houston based product liability lawyers to find out how we can help you put the pieces of your life back together. It is important that you contact us as soon as possible – the more time that passes, the more challenging it can be to reconstruct what happened and hold the right people responsible.

Vujasinovic & Beckcom P.L.L.C

1001 Texas Avenue, Suite 1020

Houston, TX 77002

Phone: 713.224.7800

Fax: 713.224.7801