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Product Liability
Description
"Product Liability" is a branch of the law that covers injuries
and damage caused by defective products. Often, through neglect or incompetence,
manufacturers and other companies create products that injure people.
We have a long history of working to compensate victims of these companies.
Contact us for more information.
Products Liability Legal Cases
$750,000. Obtained $750,000 recovery for burn injuries
caused by a defectively designed electrical switch for PG&E lineman
who admitted causing his own injury. Smethurst v. G&W Specialty Company
settled the morning of trial after extensive pre-trial discovery against
manufacturers of a 12,000 volt oil-filled switch which exploded when Smethurst
turned the switch to the wrong position and, contrary to good practice,
attempted to return the switch to its original position. Similar switches
caused 10 deaths and 21 serious injuries over a 25-year period, but no
warnings were ever distributed to users. Smethurst suffered burns over
60% of his body and was disabled for 14 months before returning to work
as a PG&E lineman.
$750,000. Chief counsel for plaintiffs in Furchtenicht
v. Peabody Barnes and General Electric, a product liability case for wrongful
death settled for $750,000. Plaintiffs' decedent, father of three, electrocuted
himself when he clipped the grounding plug from an extension cord that
was attached to a three-prong submersible sump pump. During a heavy downpour,
Mr. Furchtenicht attempted to drain his swimming pool of ground water
by using the submersible sump pump with the modified extension cord. The
sump pump shorted as he stood next to it and he suffered cardiac arrest.
Subsequent investigation showed the pump wiring had shorted due to defective
insulation and the manufacturer's assembly protocols were designed to
pass defective pumps, which all helped overcome the decedent's high level
of contributory negligence (as an engineering student in college he had
taken three courses in electricity).
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