Texas Product Liability Attorneys  

The attorneys at O'Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath are experts in the filed of product liability and defective design. A product is defective if the normal and prescribed use of the product results in risk of injury. For example, a toaster that bursts into flames during normal use is considered a defective product under the law. A product may become defective at any one of a number of steps in the retail and distribution chain.

A product may become defective by design. That means that the product is inherently dangerous, and was faulty in the inception and planning stage. Take the diet drug phen fen. The design of the drug itself causes the harmful effects. Even if the drug is manufactured exactly according to specification, the drug will cause injury. Thus, phen fen is a defective product by design

A product may also become defective during manufacture or sale. Imaging a laptop battery whose design was without flaw, but was carelessly manufactured using cheap, substandard parts and chemicals. When that battery explodes and causes injury, the product is classified defective because of its manufacturing. Additionally, a defective product may be so classified because of errors on the retail side. Imagine a riding mower that did not come with adequate warning not to use on hilly terrain. If a person becomes injured as a result of using the mower on a hill, that mower would be defective through distribution/sale.