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New York Product Liability Lawyers

Personal Injury

Construction Accidents

Medical Malpractice

Product Liability, Defective Products

Civil Rights, Police Brutality

Legal Malpractice

General Negligence

Automobile Accidents

Airplane Accidents

Persons Injured or Killed
by defective products or dangerous products

Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman & Mackauf Lawyers have represented persons injured and killed in  cases involving numerous dangerous products such as:

  • Defective automobiles
  • Defective printing presses
  • Defective circular saws
  • Defective power saws
  • Defective drugs
  • Defective machinery
  • Defective airplanes
  • Defective cranes

Injury or death caused by defective products are based on three theories of liability :

  1. Defective Design of Product
  2. Defective Product Caused by Manufacturing Flaw
  3. Manufacturer Failure to Warn

Examples of Cases of Product Liability or Defective Products
handled by Lawyers from Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman & Mackauf

A $5,500,000 settlement on behalf of the family of a man killed in the Pan Am 103 plane crash which occurred in Lockerbie, Scotland.

A $3,000,000 settlement for a woman who suffered significant leg injuries when thrown from a boat after an engine exploded.

A $1,000,000 settlement in products liability action on behalf of laborer who had two fingers cut off by defective mattress pad cutter. Defendants alleged the plaintiff was negligent in using the machine and that it had been substantially modified by plaintiffs employer.

A $2,000,000 settlement in a products liability action on behalf of 9-year old boy who lost sight in his eye due to a defective toy mirror when the glass portion of the minor came out of the plastic housing which had been defectively constructed. The corner of the glass struck one of the boy’s eyes resulting in permanent blindness in the eye.

 

 

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