We all expect the products and services we buy to work in the way they’re intended to. Your hair dryer should dry your hair. Your car should start and stop when you hit the gas or the brakes. Your medication should make you well. Most of the time, we’re all perfectly safe. But sometimes a flaw in the design, an unintended side effect, or a corporation’s need to squeeze an extra buck out of a customer can lead to faulty, defective, and unsafe products, and innocent people can get hurt.
Products liability is the legal responsibility a business has to create products that will work as they are intended to do. If you are hurt in the course of using the product in its intended way due to a flaw with that product, then you can file a claim for compensation.
This compensation can help you pay for your medical bills, to cover your lost wages, and for your pain and suffering. If your kid throws a baseball and it cracks your neighbor’s window, you feel responsible to pay for the damage, right? At its heart, that is what “liability” means – responsibility under the law.
These types of claims and lawsuits are not as easy as they sound, however: Insurance companies don’t want to pay out on claims. They want to keep your money. That’s where our McAlester product liability attorneys come in. We document your injuries, investigate the circumstances surrounding your injury, and then build a case on your behalf. From there, we either negotiate for a just settlement for you, or we take the other party to court; it all depends on the circumstances of your case.
While Stipe Law Firm is ready and able to pursue a claim of any magnitude on your behalf, we have found that certain types of products lead to claims more often.
We routinely handle cases involving:
