West Virginia Defective Products Lawyer

Thousands of unsuspecting people each year are injured or killed because of dangerous or defective products. If you have been injured by a product, such as a defective car, computer, chair, machinery or other device, a West Virginia product liability lawyer may be able to help you recover damages from the manufacturer, distributor, seller and / or installer of the product. Additionally, if the product was recently repaired, that repair may have been done negligently, which may give you a right to recover money damages for your losses including personal injuries, lost wages, and medical care.

Defective Designs

Products are sometimes defective because of their design. Products may also be dangerous and defective because of inadequate or nonexistent warnings of known or reasonably knowable risks. One example of a design defect is the Ford Pinto, which had a gas tank exposed to rear-end collisions, which would sometimes explode upon impact. Other examples are:

• Tires that blow out;
• Cars and other vehicles that accelerate suddenly;
• Lawnmowers that fail to prevent rocks from shooting out of the side;
• Nail guns that fire before being depressed on wood;
• Circular saws without adequate guards;
• Baking pans that collapse under the weight of a turkey;
• SUVs that have too high of a center of gravity;
• Helmets made out of plastic; and
• Defective/dangerous drugs, medical products, and implants

Unfortunately, manufacturers often put profits ahead of people and do not adequately test their products for safety. In some instances, such as with the Ford Pinto, the manufacturer knew that their product was unsafe, but decided to sell it to unsuspecting people anyway. In such cases, a personal injury lawyer may be able to help victims recover punitive damages.

Defective Manufacturing

Sometimes products are defective as a result of their manufacturing. The design may be fine, but the manufacturing process caused the product to be dangerous. Examples of this include food products that are not processed properly, causing the spread of disease or the introduction of foreign particles such as glass in the food. Other examples include:

• Cars that crash as a result of not being assembled properly;
• Planes that crash as a result of malfunctioning;
• TV screens that explode or computers that overheat;
• Heart stints that collapse

A Defective Product Liability Lawyer Can Help

West Virginia’s personal injury lawyer, at West Law Offices, will use experts to investigate the cause of your products failure and how it led to your injury. Our product liability lawyer will employ safety and design engineers and mechanics, metallurgists, draftsmen, machinists, accident reconstruction experts, physicists, rubber experts, scientists, chemists, doctors, electricians, and other experts to help determine how and why the dangerous product is defective.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN INJURED BY A PRODUCT, SAVE WHAT REMAINS OF THE PRODUCT AND ANY PACKAGING THAT CAME WITH THE PRODUCT IF YOU CAN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REPAIR THE PRODUCT. IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT YOU DO NOT DISCARD OR DESTROY THE PRODUCT BECAUSE IT MAY BE CRITICAL EVIDENCE IN YOUR CASE.

West Law Offices is located in Charleston, West Virginia, and we proudly serve Beckley, Logan and all of West Virginia.  For a free consultation with West Virginia’s product liability lawyer, call anytime toll free 1-877-943-WEST(9378).