Legal Help if You've Been Injured from a Defective Product in Louisiana, Texas or Mississippi
All too often, sales and profits are placed above consumer safety. Many serious injuries could be avoided if product designers, manufacturers and distributors took appropriate steps to ensure consumer safety. Sometimes dangerous products are recalled before anyone is killed. Unfortunately, companies sometimes ignore or dismiss reports of product-related injuries and fail to recall unsafe products.
The product liability attorneys at Cardenas & Saunders have experience bringing personal injury and wrongful death claims against manufacturers of a wide range of dangerous and defective products, such as:
- Defective household appliances and consumer products
- Dangerous escalators or elevators
- Contaminated food products causing food poisoning
- Dangerous children’s toys or equipment
- Defective workplace equipment, such as faulty scaffolds or defective nail guns
- Firearms that lack a safety mechanism or with a failed safety mechanisms
- Defective car parts
Why Might a Manufacturer Be Responsible for Your Injuries?
Some products, like lawn mowers or nail guns, are fundamentally dangerous but if used properly and as intended they are considered "safe." So some of the questions to consider when determining if a manufacturer should be held accountable for an injury are these:
- Were the instructions adequate and understandable so the user knew how to use the product correctly?
- Were there warnings to guide the user about what to do and what not to do to use the product safely?
- If the product is potentially dangerous even when used correctly, were there safety features to prevent injury? Did those safety features work?
- Did the manufacturer do proper testing to determine if there were design flaws or manufacturing defects that could create or contribute to dangerous conditions?
Design Defects and Product Liability in Car Accident Cases
SUV rollovers, gas tank explosions, and repeat accidents occurring at the same location on a roadway are all cases that require more investigation for a roadway design defect or a car design or manufacturing defect. A defective car part (a faulty seat belt or airbag) may also contribute to worse injuries in a car accident.
Contact the Product Liability Lawyers at Cardenas & Saunders
If you think a product defect played a part in your injuries or the death of a loved one, contact an injury attorney at Cardenas & Saunders for a free consultation.
Clients who choose us receive the following:
- Free initial consultations in English or Spanish — Se habla español
- Toll-free access at (877) 354-4529.
- Contingent fees in injury cases — no recovery means no fees or costs
- Attorneys licensed in state and federal courts in Louisiana and Texas
- Leonard Cardenas, III is board certified as a civil trial lawyer by the National Board of Trial Advocacy
