Defective Products

The attorneys at Layser & Freiwald have extensive experience litigating and trying cases involving various defective products. These cases include defective industrial products and consumer goods, such as scented candles, paint sprayers, chainsaws and residential propane tanks. The firm has also handled design defect and crash worthiness cases against automobile manufacturers, such as Ford and Chrysler.

Some of the firm’s recent successes in product liability include the following:

• Mr. Layser obtained a six-figure settlement in a case involving a manufacturer’s failure to guard a chain drive mechanism on an industrial packaging machine resulting in upper extremity amputation.
• Mr. Freiwald settled a high-six figure case involving a scented candle that exploded in our client’s home causing a fire that destroyed the home and inflicting serious burn injuries on a young school teacher.
• Mr. Layser obtained a six-figure settlement on behalf of a gentleman who suffered severe burn injuries and RSD in an accident involving improperly maintained industrial kitchen equipment.
• Mr. Freiwald represents a young worker who suffered a devastating injury to his arm from a defective freight elevator that left him with complex regional pain syndrome and an inability to work.

The firm has also handled product liability cases involving the following:

• defective hip implants
• defective cardiac stents
• defective knee implants
• defective surgical devices and equipment