Representative Cases: Defective Products Cases

Defective Products

• Defective Product (Air Bag) (Altoona, Blair County)
  Recovery for a passenger who was involved in a minor car wreck. The air bag deployed in a defective manner resulting in the client being permanently blinded in one eye. Settlement for economic and non-economic damages was reached after suit was filed.
  
  
• Defective Product - Hand Crushed by Industrial Sewing Machine (Tyrone, Blair County)
  Settlement before the start of trial for a woman injured by an industrial sewing machine that was not equipped with appropriate safety guards and warnings. Damages recovered included medical bills, lost wages, future earning capacity, pain and suffering, permanent disfigurement and disability.
  
  
• Defective Product - Food Item Container Exploded (Altoona, Blair County)
  Recovery for woman inured when a food item exploded in her hand causing nerve damage as she was preparing to use the product. Evidence was discovered that established the failure to follow federal guidelines/standards regarding the product caused the case to settle after the lawsuit was filed.
  
  
• Helicopter Crash (Bedford, Bedford County)
  The owner of a farm was a passenger in helicopter surveying his crop, when helicopter crashed, resulting in fatal injuries. Case settled with manufacturer of helicopter.

In addition to defective product cases, we have handled many other types of cases including car accidents, mototrcycle wrecks, truck collisions, animal bites, workers compensation, clergy abuse, slip and fall accidents, wrongful death and many more.

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Contact our Altoona personal injury law office to talk to a defective product attorney. Personal injury cases are always handled on a contingency fee basis. This means you will not be charged attorneys' fees unless we have recovered money damages for you.  We offer home and hospital visits if you are not able to come to our Blair County office.