Have you or a loved one been injured due to a dangerous or defective product in Pensacola, Florida? It’s important to understand your legal options. Contact us at (850) 434-3333 to learn how an experienced Pensacola product liability lawyer at Gross & Schuster Injury Lawyers can protect your interests. Your consultation is always entirely free of charge, so there’s no risk.
If a defective product caused serious harm, you may be entitled to compensation for your losses. Taking action can help you recover the money you need for medical care and other damages.
How Can Gross & Schuster Injury Lawyers Help With a Product Liability Claim in Pensacola?
Holding manufacturers accountable for defective products can be difficult, especially when facing large corporations backed by insurers and defense teams. The experienced team at Gross & Schuster Injury Lawyers knows how to protect your interests at every turn.
Here’s why clients choose us after an accident in Pensacola, FL:
- Our attorneys have over 75 years of combined experience in personal injury law. To date, we’ve recovered over $200 million in settlements and verdicts.
- We have our own teams of experts and investigative staff. We’re prepared to put the full weight of our experience and resources to work for you.
- For our success, our Pensacola personal injury lawyers have been recognized with the Avvo lawyer rating service’s Client’s Choice Award for our successful legal advocacy.
- We’ve earned a place on the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates’ Forum.
- Perhaps most importantly, we’ve earned a five-star Google rating from our satisfied clients.
Product manufacturers make billions selling their products. If they cut corners and fail to conduct rigorous testing to ensure their safety, they should be held accountable. Count on our law firm to make that happen.
Call us today to schedule a free consultation with a Pensacola personal injury attorney and learn more about how we can fight for you.
What Is My Pensacola Product Liability Case Worth?
All personal injury cases are different. Even similar types of injuries can impact victims in different ways.
When our attorneys are calculating the value of your case, we’ll consider a range of factors, including:
- The precise nature of your injuries
- Your prognosis and the possibility that you’ll make a full recovery
- Current medical treatment costs
- Whether the condition will leave you with a long-term disability
- Whether you’ve been forced to miss work and lose income due to the injuries
- Anticipated future medical treatment costs
- Out-of-pocket expenses
- Whether shared liability is a genuine issue in your case
Experienced attorneys often bring in experts to resolve conflicts over the value of a victim’s personal injury case. Experts in medicine, vocational rehabilitation, economics, and other specialties can be critical to proving how much you deserve.
What Types of Damages Are Available to Victims in a Successful Pensacola Product Liability Claim?
If you were injured due to a defective product, you can pursue compensation for economic damages and non-economic damages.
Economic damages compensate victims for tangible financial losses, such as:
- Past and future medical expenses
- Lost wages
- Reduced earning potential
- Physical therapy
- Rehabilitation
- Property damage
Non-economic damages account for the personal, non-financial toll created by an injury. Examples of these non-financial damages include:
- Pain and suffering
- Emotional distress
- Anxiety
- Depression
- PTSD
- Diminished quality of life
- Physical disfigurement and scarring
- Loss of consortium
Victims in Pensacola personal injury cases are responsible for identifying the losses, or damages, they have suffered. Then you’ll have to prove their value.
Some damages are easier to value than others. Again, expert testimony can be critical to ensuring that your future losses and non-financial damages are properly assessed.
How Much Money Does It Cost To Hire a Lawyer To Handle a Product Liability Case in Florida?
You can hire Gross & Schuster Injury Lawyers without paying a dime upfront. Instead of paying a retainer fee, you’ll agree to pay us a percentage of your settlement or verdict. This is known as a contingency fee arrangement.
It’s the system used by most personal injury law firms in Florida. With this system, you only pay if your attorney recovers compensation. The amount you pay depends completely on their level of success.
Can I Recover Damages if Someone Is Trying To Blame Me for Causing My Own Injuries in Florida?
Under the modified comparative negligence system in Florida, you only lose your right to recover compensation if you’re found to be more than 50% responsible for causing your injuries. If you share a lesser degree of fault, your damages are reduced in proportion to your share of fault.
In product defect cases, manufacturing companies often try to blame victims for using products incorrectly. Even if their arguments have merit, you may still be able to recover compensation. It’s important to hire an attorney if someone is trying to pin the blame on you.
Insurance companies know the rules inside and out, but so do our Pensacola product liability attorneys. When you hire us, we’ll be prepared for the blame-the-victim game–and ready to fight back.
Our Product Liability Attorneys in Pensacola Will Fight To Recover Compensation for All of Your Injuries
Defective products can leave innocent people struggling with painful and potentially life-changing injuries.
Our attorneys represent clients with all types of physical injuries, including:
- Traumatic brain injuries
- Crushing injuries
- Broken bones
- Concussions
- Burns
- Dislocations
- Shoulder injuries
- Soft tissue damage
- Spinal cord injuries
- Head and neck injuries
- Nerve damage
- Back injuries
- Internal bleeding
- Organ damage
- Cancer and other diseases
- Amputations and loss of limbs
- Paralysis
- Catastrophic injuries
- Wrongful death of a loved one
It’s also important that your settlement or verdict account for the mental toll that an injury can create. Many injury victims struggle with severe depression, PTSD, and other mental health problems.
When you hire our legal team, you can count on us to fight for a compensation award that fairly accounts for the physical, emotional, and financial toll the injury has taken.
What Do I Have To Prove To Win a Product Liability Case in Pensacola?
Most personal injury victims must prove negligence to recover damages. However, product liability claims are governed by strict liability laws.
Still, you won’t automatically be awarded compensation if you were injured while using a dangerous consumer product.
You’ll have to prove:
- The defendant was responsible for putting the product on the consumer market in some way
- The product suffered from a defect
- You were injured while using the product
- You were using the product as intended or in a way that was reasonably foreseeable
- You sustained damages due to your injuries
Product liability cases can be based on three primary types of product defects: design defects, manufacturing defects, and design defects. Each type of defect involves different types of proof.
Design Defects
Design defects are defects created because of the way the product was designed.
When deciding whether to award compensation based on design defects, courts generally consider:
- The severity of the risk of harm
- The benefits of the product as designed
- Whether a safer design alternative exists
- How effectively the product will function using the safer alternative
- Costs associated with using the safer alternative
Products that suffer from design defects are unreasonably dangerous even when the product is assembled exactly as intended.
Manufacturing Defects
Manufacturing defects only arise because a product manufacturer made an error in the manufacturing process. As designed, the product would be reasonably safe. The risk of harm only arose due to a deviation from the product’s design.
One example would be a manufacturer who used the wrong size screws when assembling a bicycle.
Marketing Defects (Failure to Warn)
Not all products can be made entirely safe. That doesn’t mean they don’t have valuable benefits. Product manufacturers are responsible for warning consumers about non-obvious risks associated with their products.
When the manufacturer fails to adequately warn consumers, they can be held responsible for the resulting harm. Adequate warning may include offering instructions on how to use the product properly or detailing any known risk of harm.
How Long Do I Have To File a Product Liability Lawsuit After Suffering an Injury in Florida?
Florida enforces a statute of limitations like all other states. Most personal injury victims have two years from the date of an injury to file a lawsuit in Florida. This is also the deadline that applies in product liability cases.
Consequences for missing the deadline are extreme. You entirely lose your right to pursue compensation if you wait more than two years to take legal action. It’s really not worth the risk–contact an attorney quickly if you suffered an injury due to a dangerous product.
Contact a Pensacola Product Liability Lawyer for a Free Consultation
Product liability claims in Pensacola, Florida, involve complex legal issues. Our team at Gross & Schuster Injury Lawyers is always ready for the challenge–and we won’t let the insurance companies bully you into taking a lowball settlement award.
To learn more about how an experienced Pensacola product liability lawyer can fight for you, call for a free consultation.
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Gross & Schuster Injury Lawyers
803 N Palafox St.
Pensacola, FL 32501
(850) 434-3333
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