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Alexander Hawes, LLP: Product Liability

Product Liability Description
Product Liability Cases
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"Product Liability" is a branch of the law that covers injuries and damage caused by defective products. Often, through neglect or incompetence, manufacturers and other companies create products that injure people. We have a long history of working to compensate victims of these companies. Contact us for more information.

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$750,000. Obtained $750,000 recovery for burn injuries caused by a defectively designed electrical switch for PG&E lineman who admitted causing his own injury. Smethurst v. G&W Specialty Company settled the morning of trial after extensive pre-trial discovery against manufacturers of a 12,000 volt oil-filled switch which exploded when Smethurst turned the switch to the wrong position and, contrary to good practice, attempted to return the switch to its original position. Similar switches caused 10 deaths and 21 serious injuries over a 25-year period, but no warnings were ever distributed to users. Smethurst suffered burns over 60% of his body and was disabled for 14 months before returning to work as a PG&E lineman.

$750,000. Chief counsel for plaintiffs in Furchtenicht v. Peabody Barnes and General Electric, a product liability case for wrongful death settled for $750,000. Plaintiffs' decedent, father of three, electrocuted himself when he clipped the grounding plug from an extension cord that was attached to a three-prong submersible sump pump. During a heavy downpour, Mr. Furchtenicht attempted to drain his swimming pool of ground water by using the submersible sump pump with the modified extension cord. The sump pump shorted as he stood next to it and he suffered cardiac arrest. Subsequent investigation showed the pump wiring had shorted due to defective insulation and the manufacturer's assembly protocols were designed to pass defective pumps, which all helped overcome the decedent's high level of contributory negligence (as an engineering student in college he had taken three courses in electricity).

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