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California Product Liability Laws
Purchasing a reliable product should be a reasonable exercise of personal freedom. The last thing you should be concerned about is whether or not the product works as advertised or is inexplicably dangerous. However, this can sometimes happen thanks to manufacturing errors, design flaws, or a lack of proper instructions on how to use the product. California product liability laws exist to protect consumers from faulty products. What Are the California Product Liability Laws? Under California state law, anyone who is responsible for developing, manufacturing, or distributing merchandise of any kind bears responsibility if that merchandise is inherently defective, [...]
Average Product Liability Settlement in California
When you purchase a product, you expect it to work as advertised. Sometimes, certain products not only fail to work as they should, but they can also cause injury to the consumer or even result in death. Consumers who suffer needlessly as a result of product liability can pursue negligence claims against the manufacturer. If you are dealing with a similar situation, you may be wondering what the average product liability settlement in California is. What Is the Average Product Liability Settlement in California? Simply put, there is no average product liability settlement in California. The chief reason for [...]
What Is the First Thing You Do in a Boating Accident?
The first thing to do in a boating accident is to ascertain whether you or anyone else requires medical attention, and if anyone fell overboard, work quickly to get them back into the vessel safely. If injuries occur, the priority is getting victims to shore as soon as possible. Boat operators must legally stop their vessel immediately at the accident scene and assist injured parties unless doing so would create danger. Boating accidents have the potential to cause devastating injuries, and it is vital for everyone involved in a boating accident to know the first steps they should take after [...]
What Is a Boating Accident?
Many people living in California enjoy boating on the Pacific Ocean, the Colorado River, and many other lakes, rivers, and streams throughout the Golden State. While boating can be relaxing and enjoyable, it is also an inherently dangerous activity. When boating accidents happen, victims can sustain a wide range of potential injuries, including drowning. A boating accident involves any incident in which a watercraft capsizes, experiences a fire onboard, or crashes into another vessel or an underwater obstruction. It is vital to understand how boating accidents happen and the motor vehicle accident laws that apply to these situations so [...]
Product Liability in Car Injury Cases in California
Most of the time on this blog, when we discuss automotive injuries, we are talking about motor vehicle accidents. In these cases, the injured party can hold negligent drivers liable for the damages they cause. Sometimes, we discuss more complex forms of liability, as when we talk about holding trucking companies liable for damages caused by their drivers in an accident. Another type of liability that comes up in some car accidents is known as product liability. This is the legal theory that allows people to hold manufacturers and other parties liable after they are injured due to a defective [...]
What Do Disclaimers Mean For Products Liability Cases in California?
Manufacturers and sellers of consumer products make certain unwritten promises about those products. These promises are known as implied warranties. In essence, these warranties mean that the consumer can purchase the item with the assurances from the manufacturer and seller that the product is safe and designed properly for consumers to use in the way that the designer intended. But, what about all those disclaimers on consumer products, what effect do they have on the buyer's implied warranties? Californians who have purchased any kind of consumer product, whether it be a cellular phone, a household cleaning product or a [...]
What is the statute of limitations for products liability claims?
When a person in Orange County has an injury or illness, the cause is not always immediately apparent. For example, if a person takes a new kind of medicine, it can cause unexpected illnesses to develop over time. But, it may take the victim and their doctors months or even years to discover the condition and then trace it back to that particular medication. On the other hand, in some cases, like motor vehicle accidents, the cause of the injury is usually obvious. Even in car and truck accidents, however, an unknown defective auto part may have caused the [...]
Vizio recalls televisions for manufacturing defect
On behalf of Easton & Easton, LLP posted in Product Liability on Wednesday, August 20, 2014. Many Orange County residents probably remember a time when big-screen televisions were huge contraptions that were very expensive to buy and difficult to move from room to room. During the past decade or so, technological advances have made both big and small televisions much more portable and less expensive. However, even the latest and greatest flat screen televisions can still break, cause other damage, or even injure individuals if they fall from a wall or from their stands. Vizio, which makes a variety of flat screen televisions, recently [...]
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