Product Liability
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Chicago Product Liability Attorneys
When you buy a product, you expect it to be safe. Unfortunately, the market is full of dangerous products such as defective medical devices, drugs, automobiles, airplanes and foods. The law allows you to recover for personal injury, pain and suffering, medical bills and lost wages that are caused by unsafe products.
A defective product is one that either has a flawed design and/or was not manufactured properly. The end result is that the consumer is put at serious risk of harm or injury when using the product. There are times when the injuries caused by the product are immediate, while other times they are not realized for many years. Proving negligence in product liability cases can be quite difficult and requires a thorough investigation to gather all the evidence and get to the truth.
HM&M pursues cases against all product liability. Contact us today for assistance with all types of malpractice cases.
Types of Product Liability
A Sample of Our Successes
- $31,250,000Product Liability
Record settlement where a defective product resulted in a severe and permanent injury.
- $20,000,000Product Liability
$20 million verdict: $10 million in compensatory damages, $10 million in punitive damages against PACCAR, Inc., the manufacturer of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks, for a man that lost his eye when the hood of his PACCAR truck unexpectedly blew over onto his head after his truck broke down. Plaintiff alleged that PACCAR, Inc. negligently manufactured and designed the truck by failing to implement known safety systems that prevented hoods from unexpectedly blowing over. When evidence revealed that PACCAR, Inc. knew of 16 prior similar incidents but failed to inform their safety engineers of these incidents, Plaintiff sought and the jury awarded punitive damages for the reckless conduct of PACCAR, Inc.
- $1,140,000Construction AccidentsProduct Liability
Verdict in a construction accident/product liability case for a carpenter whose index finger was amputated by a defective Delta table saw. A flaw in the extension table caused the piece being cut to jam and force the plaintiff’s hand into the spinning blade. Tried in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
