Products Liability/Defective Products
Decof & Decof in Providence, Rhode Island helps hold manufacturers responsible when their defectively designed and defectively manufactured products injure or kill consumers and workers. Our products liability attorneys stand up to large companies and their insurers so that the injured and their families have equal resources and knowledge working for their interests.
Staunch advocates for products liability victims
Our record of success includes a wide array of cases involving the following:
Pharmaceuticals/drugs/medications
Drug makers can be held liable for developing and releasing drugs that have not been adequately tested, whose safety tests raised red flags that the makers ignored, or whose warnings were insufficient.
Automobiles/motorcycles
Manufacturers build cars, trucks, and motorcycles that they claim are safe but that may cause harm or death because of design failures, substandard materials, or inadequate testing. Defective automobile claims often involve air bags, seat belts, unexpected rollover, excessive roof crush, low crash worthiness, fires, and substandard tires.
Construction equipment/machinery
Large equipment used at construction sites and in manufacturing are responsible for countless injuries every year due to inadequate design, manufacturing defects, or insufficient instructions or warnings.
Medical/surgical equipment
Medical devices that sometimes do not meet strict safety standards include hip and knee replacements, pacemakers, heart stents and catheters, dialysis filters, brain stents, breast implants, joint replacements and latex products.
Airplanes
Defects in airplanes of all sizes and helicopters are responsible for serious and fatal crashes. Manufacturers can be held liable for injuries and deaths resulting from their negligent design or manufacture of aircraft.
Playground equipment
Play equipment and the area surrounding it must meet strict safety standards to prevent fractures, lacerations, paralysis, and brain injuries in children who use it.
Swimming pools
Improper design, manufacture, or installation of swimming pools and accessories such as diving boards and slides cause thousands of injuries each year.
All-terrain vehicles
ATV accidents sometimes result from design and manufacturing defects.
Toys
Children’s products are not always safe. From small, choking-hazard parts to lead and other harmful chemicals, children's toys can be a great risk to children who play with them.
Personal watercraft - Jet Skis
Injuries on personal watercraft range from head injuries and fractures to death. Injuries usually result from falling from the water craft or a collision, which sometimes are caused by or exacerbated by a design or manufacturing defect.
Helmets
Motorcycle, bicycle, and other sports helmets are designed to protect. Yet, defects can render them useless in a crash.
Decof & Decof’s significant products liability cases
- $19.6 million judgment after a jury verdict for the family of world-famous Formula One race car driver Mark Donahue, who was killed when a defective tire on his race car exploded and caused his car to crash during a Grand Prix race in Austria
- Confidential settlement against a hospital and pharmaceutical manufacturer for the negligent administration of Diprivan (propofol) to a 13-year-old boy which resulted in his death
Please see Our Record of Success for additional products liability verdicts and settlements.
Let us help
Please contact our Providence, RI personal injury attorneys 24 hours a day for a free consultation. We offer clients a contingency fee arrangement, which means you pay no legal fees unless we obtain a verdict or settlement on your behalf.
