Overview
Every year tens of thousands of Americans are injured or killed because dangerously defective products are manufactured domestically and abroad and distributed for public use. The law of South Carolina permits victims of dangerous products to be compensated for their losses
Types of defective products which can cause serious personal injury or death:
- Toys which choke or injure children.
- Automobiles with defective doors, fuel tanks, seat belts, or seats.
- Medications which cause birth defects.
- Medications which cause organ failure or other injury.
- Defective boilers and/or power piping.
- Toxic waste / chemicals / metals.
- Unguarded machines which traumatically amputate limbs or digits.
Duties of Manufacturers and Distributors
Every manufacturer and distributor of a product must consider the environment in which the product will be used. For example, will the product be used in the household where small children will have access to it? What dangers does this product pose? Is it reasonably foreseeable that the product will be subjected to stresses or impacts - such as automobile collisions? Where a product, when used in its foreseeable uses is dangerously defective, the manufacturer has the duty to eliminate the defect....or to design safety features into products when failure to do so will foreseeably lead to injuries or deaths.
