Jacksonville Defective Design Attorneys

If you are injured by a dangerous product you may not understand how the injury happened. Did you misuse the product or was there something inherently wrong with it? Was it the way it was made or designed?

A Jacksonville product liability case looks at three areas - the product’s design, its manufacturing, and marketing. The latter means inadequate warnings accompanied the dangerous product. A manufacturer may have experienced a problem in the making of the product. Generally it was not intended and was a mistake in the manufacturing process and it is possible that the manufacturer corrected the mistake before many of the products were made.

But a design defect is different in that it is inherent in all of the products. A car that has three tires, an uneven bicycle, and a crib that collapses, are all examples of a defective design. Every product made with a defective design will suffer the same problem and the injuries this defective product cause may be similar in nature.

There are some designs with inherent danger such as a car that goes fast and a knife that is sharp. Is the product defective if it was designed for that purpose? Oftentimes the court will look at whether or not the product presents an unreasonable danger.

Product liability litigation based on design defect can also allege the product was not designed with reasonable care. In that case, Farah & Farah’s Jacksonville product liability injury attorneys can make a claim for both product liability and negligence.

Florida law allows a person injured by a dangerous product to file a product liability action against the manufacturer, seller, distributor, and marketer of the product based on a design or manufacturing defect. Call us anywhere in Florida and South Georgia so we can discuss you injuries and determine whether they were the result of the dangerous product and whether that product suffered from a defective design, manufacture, marketing, or all three.