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Defective Products


Airbag Claims
Automobile airbags have caused or contributed to thousands of deaths and serious injury in numerous cases where the airbag accidentally deploys, deploys improperly, or is not designed properly to protect the occupants in the vehicle.

Chemical and Toxic Torts
Toxic torts involve exposure to chemical substances to individuals who come in contact with such harmful materials. Exposure to toxic chemicals can cause an individual to suffer sometimes fatal, debilitating, and/or other serious long-term health problems.

Consumer Products
When consumers are injured because of a product defect, which may include defective design, manufacturer errors, or improper instruction, they have the right to seek redress from the manufacturers and sellers of that defective product.

Crashworthiness
In crashworthiness cases the cause of the collision is not the issue, but rather what the manufacturer could and should have done to ensure a vehicle's overall structural integrity and its ability to protect the occupants from injury in the event of a collision.

Defective Seatbelts
When a vehicle has a seatbelt system failure it can contribute to serious injury or even a passenger being ejected from the vehicle during an automobile accident.

Fuel-Fed Fires
Automotive fires that are a result of fuel system failures or flawed designs typically involve life threatening fire or heat-induced injuries sustained after an initial survivable car accident.

Industrial Products
A design defect, failure to warn, or a defect in the manufacturing process of Industrial Products can cause large commercial and construction vehicles to be unstable or unsafe to an unsuspecting operator. This has been known to occur in variety of large mechanical products that cause hundreds of preventable accidents each year.

Roof Crush
Roof Crush incidents occur in motor vehicles when the structure of an automobile's roof is compromised. This might possibly be due to poor design or even a manufacturer's defect. The cars roof fails to withstand a rollover accident causing serious injury or death to the cars occupants.

Seatback Failures
Automotive seatback failure occurs when the front seats of a vehicle fail to stay upright in a rear-end collision which typically is a life threatening defect affecting unsuspecting passengers in car accidents each year.

SUV Rollovers
Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) Rollovers, commonly occur due to a SUVs' higher center of gravity and narrower track width; which cause thousands of automotive fatalities and injuries annually.

Tire Defect Claims
Defective automobile tires have been a major issue in recent years. The most common occurrence is due to manufacturer's defects causing tread separation. Tire defects have been the cause of many vehicle accidents resulting in catastrophic injury and tragic death to a vehicle's occupants.

Trailer Sway
Trailer Sway, commonly known as the fish tailing or side-to-side action of an RV trailer as an automobile is pulling it. This movement can easily cause the tow vehicle to become unstable and roll over causing a roadway accident.


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BARON & HERSKOWITZ

9100 South Dadeland Blvd, Penthouse 1, Ste 1704,
One Datran Center,
Miami, Florida 33156
Telephone: (305) 670-0101
Broward: (954) 760-9022
Fax: (305) 670-2393

 

 

 

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9100 South Dadeland Blvd, Penthouse 1, Ste 1704, One Datran Center, Miami Fl, 33156
Phone: (305) 670-0101 / Broward: (954) 760-9022 / Fax: (305) 670-2393

 


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