Product liability
A known defect is a decision, not an accident.
Companies rarely learn about a defect the day someone dies. They learn from test data, field reports, warranty claims, and earlier lawsuits — and then they decide what a fix is worth. When the memo weighs redesign cost against injury cost, the product on the shelf is a choice.
The system behind the defect.
Product safety follows a simple hierarchy the industry itself teaches: design the hazard out; if you cannot, guard against it; if you cannot guard it, warn about it clearly. Our cases live in the gaps — the safer alternative design that was priced and shelved, the guard that was value-engineered away, the warning softened because marketing thought it hurt sales, the recall issued years after the first field report.
Discovery is aimed at the paper trail those decisions always leave: test protocols, design-review minutes, complaint databases, and the cost-benefit analyses companies hope never to read aloud.
Working backward
Questions we investigate.
- 01When did the company first learn of the danger — and from whom?
- 02What did the safer alternative design cost, and who rejected it?
- 03What did internal testing show that the public never saw?
- 04How long passed between the first field report and the recall — and who was hurt inside that window?
- 05What did the warnings say — and what did the marketing promise?
Cases like these, before.
- Reform: Confidential settlement and vehicle recalls by a major auto manufacturer
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome; every case depends on its own facts and law.
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