Sacramento Product Liability Lawyer

If you’ve been injured because of an unreasonably unsafe product in Sacramento, California, it’s important to reach out to the award-winning legal team at Singleton Schreiber. You have rights as an injured consumer, which can include the ability to sue the manufacturer for your medical expenses, disability, and anguish. Our top-rated Sacramento product liability lawyers are prepared to help you secure the life-changing results you deserve.

At Singleton Schreiber, we’re respected Sacramento, CA personal injury attorneys with decades of collective experience. We stand up to powerful corporations and fight to hold them accountable when their products are responsible for needless injuries and deaths. As local lawyers with national resources, we’ve successfully won billions in settlements and jury verdicts for clients like you.

Call our Sacramento law office to discover why you’ll want our award-winning law firm in your corner, too. We offer a free consultation, so reach out to schedule yours today.

What is Product Liability?

Every year, consumer products are responsible for more than 31 million injuries nationwide. Roughly 21,000 people are killed because of consumer products annually, too.

Many of these injuries and deaths can be avoided, but they happen because the products are defective.

There’s no way for states like California to check every product before it’s sold to consumers. Ultimately, product safety is the responsibility of the manufacturer. California can, however, encourage companies to take this responsibility seriously.

Product liability laws allow consumers to sue when they are injured by an unreasonably unsafe product. More specifically, companies can be strictly liable for consumer injuries and deaths when a product is defective.

There are three types of product defects:

• Design defect: a product is unsafe because there is a problem with the way it’s designed
• Manufacturing defect: a product is unsafe because the final product deviates from the design
• Marketing defect: a company fails to warn of serious risks associated with the ordinary use or reasonably foreseeable misuse of a product

If you’re injured by a defective product, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers can be automatically responsible for your medical bills, lost wages, and other damages - regardless of the level of care they exercised when designing, building, or selling the product.

You may also have the right to bring a product liability lawsuit because the company was negligent or breached a warranty.

Advocating For Clients in All Types of Product Liability Cases

At Singleton Schreiber, our Sacramento product liability lawyers have extensive experience representing injured consumers and families in cases involving defective:

• Medical devices and medical equipment, including IVC filters, hernia mesh, and joint implants
• Personal care products, including talc powder and hair straightening products
• Over-the-counter medications, including acetaminophen
• Prescription medications, including Elmiron and Terbutaline
• Household appliances
• Construction equipment and heavy machinery
• Vehicles and vehicle components
• Clothing
• Toys and children’s products
• Pesticide and herbicides

When a product doesn’t perform as an ordinary consumer would expect, the company behind that product can potentially be liable for resulting injuries or deaths. Our Sacramento personal injury lawyers want to help you make things right. Contact our legal team to discuss your product liability lawsuit today.

What Do I Have to Prove to Win a Product Liability Lawsuit in Sacramento?

When you file a product liability lawsuit in Sacramento, you will have the burden of proving the following things:

• You were harmed by a product designed, manufactured, or sold by the defendant, and
• The product suffered from a design defect, a manufacturing defect, and/or a marketing defect.

You must be able to demonstrate that the defect was a substantial factor in your injury or family member’s wrongful death.

In California, product liability lawsuits must be established by a preponderance of the evidence. This means a jury has to be convinced that your claims are more likely true than not.

You’ll need evidence to support your claim, which might include:

• Product designs and blueprints
• Product manufacturing specifications
• Expert testimony
• Product warnings
• Manufacturer memos and notes
• Safety tests and results
• Photographs and video footage
• Eyewitness statements

Our product liability attorneys in Sacramento will carefully investigate your situation, gather critical pieces of evidence, and work to build a compelling legal claim on your behalf. We’ll invest the full force of our resources and experience into your product liability lawsuit and work to get you the victory you need to move forward with your life.

What Damages Can Be Awarded to Injured Consumers in Sacramento?

Whether a defective product has caused a spinal cord injury, a brain injury, severe burns, amputated limbs, or the wrongful death of a loved one, the consequences can affect just about every aspect of your life.

Fortunately, California law gives you the right to sue the manufacturer, distributor, and retailer for your financial losses (economic damages) and more difficult to value trauma (non-economic damages).

Known collectively as compensatory damages, this can include money for:

• Current and future medical bills
• Rehabilitation and therapy
• Lost wages and earnings
• Disability
• Nursing care
• Property damage
• Funeral costs
• Pain and suffering
• Emotional distress
• PTSD
• Reduced quality of life
• Inconvenience
• Chronic physical pain
• Disfigurement

If the company refuses to settle your product liability lawsuit for a fair value, you can decide to bring your case to trial. When this happens, you may be able to seek punitive damages from a jury, as well.

Punitive damages can be awarded when a jury determines that a defendant’s conduct was malicious, oppressive, or fraudulent. In the context of product liability lawsuits, this usually happens when a company conceals known safety risks or intentionally puts an unsafe product on the market.

Call Singleton Schreiber For Help With Your Product Liability Lawsuit in Sacramento, CA

The statute of limitations for product liability lawsuits is two years. The two-year window begins on the date you’re injured, the date your injury is diagnosed, the date you discovered or reasonably should have discovered the injury, or the date of a loved one’s wrongful death. Once time runs out, you will lose the right to hold the company accountable for its unsafe products.

At Singleton Schreiber, we’re recognized for excellence in personal injury litigation by Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Sacramento Magazine, and other notable organizations. As fearless advocates for injured consumers, our Sacramento product liability lawyers have successfully recovered billions of dollars in monetary awards.

Now, we’re here to fight for you. Contact our Sacramento, CA, law office to learn more. Your first consultation is free.