Miami, Florida, Product Liability Law

South Florida Defective Product Law Attorney Helping the Injured in Miami, Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale

Every year, hundreds of people in South Florida are seriously injured by dangerous or defective products. Product liability law is the body of law that dictates when a product designer, manufacturer or seller may be held legally responsible for injuries or death that result from use of a dangerous or defective product.

Greenberg & Stone, P.A., is a South Florida-based personal injury and wrongful death law firm with offices throughout Florida. Our Miami product liability lawyers have more than 60 years' collective experience litigating and negotiating personal injury cases, including claims based on defective products. This page presents an overview of product liability law. More information is available by reviewing some past product liability lawsuits we have handled. For even more information, or to schedule a free consultation, call us toll-free at (888) 499-9700.

Who Can File a Product Liability Lawsuit?

Generally speaking, anyone injured by an unreasonably unsafe product or a defective product may file a product liability claim. The injury victim does not need to have a direct relationship with the seller of the product; in other words, the injury victim does not have to be the person who purchased the product. If you borrowed a defective lawnmower and suffered an eye injury, for example, you may have a product liability claim against the lawnmower company and/or other defendants.

Product Liability Law: Types of Defects

A product liability lawsuit plaintiff must prove that the product that caused the injury was defective and that the defect made the product unreasonably dangerous. Three types of defects are generally considered in product liability lawsuits:

• A design defect is an error or mistake in the design of a product that makes it unreasonably unsafe. Design defects are present in a product from the very beginning. A child's toy made with razor-sharp edges might be an example of defective design because it is so likely to cause serious injury.
• A manufacturing defect is an unplanned defect that occurs due to an error during production. An example of a manufacturing defect would be a defective airbag that does not deploy during an accident because of a faulty electrical connection.
• Marketing defects include mistakes in product labels, instructions without sufficient detail, failure to warn of a product's hidden dangers and failure to warn of dangers associated with predictable misuse. An example of a marketing defect might be a hair dryer sold without a label warning against using the hair dryer in the bathtub due to the risk of electric shock.

Consult Greenberg & Stone About Product Liability Law Questions

Our AV-rated* law firm represents injury victims throughout Florida and beyond in product liability lawsuits. We offer a free consultation in English or Spanish. Our firm represents victims of accidents and negligence on a contingency fee basis. You pay no attorneys' fees unless we recover compensation for you. To learn more about product liability law, call us toll-free at (888) 499-9700.