A Manufacturing Disaster
When a product has injured someone and that individual takes it to court, the court will sit there and as the same old questions that anyone else would ask: How did the injury occur? Was the product malfunctioning? Was there anything wrong with the product you were using? How severe was the injury? Did the person have to go to the doctor? These questions may seem simple to you right now, but to find the answers to them, it can be a bit more complex then you could imagine. Courts that ask the question “was there anything wrong with the product” will be using a couple of theories in order to analyze those facts that are surrounding the manufacturing defect liability.
The two theories may overlap one another or even blend in, but the main difference is that the product liability will be putting all of its focus on the product, while the negligence will be focusing on the manufacturer, distributors or seller conduct along with the product. Yes, both of the theories that the court has is going to be looking at what was wrong with the product that was defective enough to cause an injury.
The manufacturing defect is not something that you or anyone else needs to go for, but sadly, many people go through it each year. Manufacturing defects are defects that were not intended to happen. Take a chair for example, that chair has been designed to be as stable as should be. However, the manufacture manufactured the chair with one of the chairs legs not properly bolted in. It would be said that the chair that does not have the leg properly bolted in is a manufacturing defect. No, it’s not intentional, but it could still because you harm.
