Compensation Awards in Oregon

Most of the products you see for sale are safe, and have been tested to ensure that this is the case. However, there are some occasions in which a product in Gladstone is defective. When a defective product causes an injury, this brings up the area of law called Product Liability.

Product Liability Laws in Oregon

There are 3 basic categories of product defects in Oregon.

First, manufacturing defects are those defects that stem from the actual manufacture of the product. For example, if a desk collapses because the manufacturer did not put in three bolts that were required by the design, this would be a manufacturing defect.

The second type are design defects. Design defects are found when the plans off of which the products are built are faulty themselves. If, for example, a thermos called for too thin of a material to be used, and hot liquids spilled out and burned the user, this would be a design defect.

First, manufacturing defects are those defects that stem from the actual manufacture of the product. For example, if a desk collapses because the manufacturer did not put in three bolts that were required by the design, this would be a manufacturing defect.

Help for your Product Liability Claim in Gladstone Oregon

If you owned or used a product, and it injured you because of one of the above defects, you should contact a Products Liability lawyer in Oregon.