{"id":5846,"date":"2016-09-09T21:25:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T21:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terrybryant.com\/blogs\/?p=5846"},"modified":"2025-03-11T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T15:43:11","slug":"defective-product-lawsuits-090916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terrybryant.com\/blogs\/commons-reasons-filing-defective-product-lawsuits","title":{"rendered":"Three Common Reasons For Filing Defective Product Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5EgUTYe8-Co?list=PLZ2c4oeHeqCX-6wRCiqzSRIxFjA5kdXXM\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><div id=\"glm-mobile-toc-box\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Defective products can have tragic repercussions for unsuspecting families, which is why many consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terrybryant.com\/houston-product-injury-lawyer\">defective product lawsuits<\/a> following an injury or death due to improper manufacturing or warning labels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>There are three common ways a product can be deemed defective:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A mishap at the factory where the product is manufactured, causing it to be ineffective or harmful. This may include medication that contains hazardous chemicals or does not list all of the possible side-effects.<\/li>\n<li>An inherent design flaw that prevents the product from fulfilling its intended purpose, which might include an engine that spontaneously combusts.<\/li>\n<li>An insufficient or non-existent warning label that could have prevented serious injury or death, such as in a house fire caused by the product, may give rise to a valid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terrybryant.com\/what-to-do-injured-recalled-product\">product injury claim<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>But in order to prove in a court of law that negligence occurred, the product must have been used the way it was intended by the manufacturer<\/strong>. If the injured party were tampering with or using the product in any other way, it would be a much harder case to try.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defective product lawsuits can help victim\u2019s hold a company accountable for the sometimes minor production mistakes that may lead to dangerous, or even fatal consequences<\/strong>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defective products can have tragic repercussions for unsuspecting families, which is why many consider defective product lawsuits following an injury or death due to improper manufacturing or warning labels. There are three common ways a product can be deemed defective: A mishap at the factory where the product is manufactured, causing it to be ineffective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[838,767,297,26],"class_list":["post-5846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defective-products","tag-defective-product-attorneys","tag-defective-product-lawsuit","tag-defective-product-lawyer","tag-defective-product-liability-case","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why Consumers Sue Over Defective Products<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Defective products can have tragic repercussions for families, which is why many consider defective product lawsuits following an injury or death.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.terrybryant.com\/blogs\/commons-reasons-filing-defective-product-lawsuits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Consumers Sue Over Defective Products\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Defective products can have tragic repercussions for families, which is why many consider defective product lawsuits following an injury or death.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.terrybryant.com\/blogs\/commons-reasons-filing-defective-product-lawsuits\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Terry Bryant Accident &amp; 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