What is a Defective or Unsafe Product case?
A. Product Liability refers to the fact that a manufacturer of a product is liable or responsible for design defects which can cause the product to be dangerous to the user. Product Liability involves some type of defect in the design or manufacture of a product. The defect must make the product unreasonably dangerous for its actual use or any reasonably foreseeable use. A manufacturer may also be responsible for failing to provide adequate warnings about the product. Examples of product liability cases might include defective airbags in an automobile, defective tires (as recently occurred with respect Firestone tires and Ford Explorer vehicles), defective medical devices (such as the Sulzer-Medica Hip Implant) and Fen-Phen (a diet drug where claims were brought against American Home Products for failing to adequately test and warn physicians and consumers concerning risks of taking the medication).
