What is a negligently manufactured product?
Florida’s Standard Jury Instructions include legal descriptions for when a product is negligently manufactured. These instructions are given to jurors by the judge in the trial of a civil case and jurors are told they are the “law of the case”. Two of the instructions provide a good, concise description of two ways a product can be determined to be negligently manufactured: A product is unreasonably dangerous because of its design if the product fails to perform as safely as an ordinary consumer would expect when used as intended or in a manner reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer or the risk of danger in the design outweighs the benefits. A product is unreasonably dangerous because of a manufacturing defect if it does not conform to its intended design and fails to perform as safely as the intended design would have performed.
