New York residents understand that defective products cause injuries that can be the basis for product defect claims to the manufacturers and some retail sellers. These are mostly products associated with mandatory recalls for known problems, often stemming from class...
Defective Toys and Other Products
Your NutriBullet Blender May Blow Up, Lawsuit Claims
Over 100 claims have been filed against the makers of NutriBullet alleging the machine malfunctions and explodes under normal use, causing first degree burns, severe cuts, and even knocking out teeth. Most of these claims have been filed as product defect cases, with...
Families Sue Hoverboard Distributors After Fire That Killed Two Children
They neither hover, nor are they boards, yet we persist in calling them hoverboards. And despite the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s warning that no hoverboard is safe, we persist in buying them, riding them, extracting teeth while riding them, doing drive-by...
Parents Sue Sword Maker After Teen’s Traumatic Head Injury
Unfortunately for one Kentucky teen, playing sword baseball with a water-bottle resulted in a severe accidental injury that is now the subject of a product liability lawsuit. While the teen was playing with friends by using a sword as a bat, and hitting plastic water...
Who’s Liable When 3D Printed Objects Cause Injury?
The advances in 3D printing technology are creating a legal gray space for product liability. Generally, when a person is injured due to a defective product, or failure to warn, the manufacturer, designer, and/or the company that put the product into the marketplace...