Defective Products Resource Center

Product Liability Accidents, occur when defective products cause unexpected harm to the user. Products Liability Accidents can involve a wide range of products, from children’s toys, to recreational vehicles, to smoke detectors. A product is said to be defective if it does not provide the level of safety which the public is entitled to expect. The three basic types of defects are manufacturing defects, design defects, and insufficient instructions or failure to warn. Product Liability laws hold designers, manufacturers, and sellers of defective products responsible for the injuries and illnesses suffered by buyers and users. Product Liability claims can be based on negligence, strict liability, or breach of warranty, and Product Liability laws vary by state.

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Defective Products Resource Center

• Types of Defective Products · Information about the various types of defective and dangerous products, including design defects, manufacturing defects, failure to warn, and an explanation of unavoidably unsafe products.
• Defective Products Information · A guide for Defective Product Accidents, including explanations of common product liability terms dealing with warranties, negligence, and liability, an overview of determining fault, and the statute of limitations

Defective Products Verdicts, Settlements and Class Action Watch

• Zaza et al v Marquess and Nell Inc · On January 28, 1990, Gerardo Zaza, an employee of Maxwell House Coffee (Maxwell House), was severely injured when hot molten water and carbon within a quench tank that he was attempting to repair overflowed and landed on his back, arms and upper extremities, causing second degree burns over twenty-one percent of his body.
• Mettinger v Globe Slicing Machine Co · The primary issue on appeal is whether the entity that sold and serviced a defective meat-slicing machine that injured a user of the machine may maintain an action for indemnification against a company that purchased and continued the product line of the manufacturer of the machine.

Defective Products Official Links

• Consumer Product Safety Commission · The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.
• Government Recall Center · To provide better service in alerting the American people to unsafe, hazardous or defective products, six federal agencies with vastly different jurisdictions have joined together to create www.recalls.gov -- a "one stop shop" for U.S. Government recalls.