Manufacturers of defective products are protected in Louisiana by the Louisiana Product Liability Act, Louisiana Revised Statutes, 9:2800.51, et seq., which provides the exclusive theories of liability for defective products causing injury in Louisiana. Under the LPLA, a product manufacturer can be held liable only if the product that causes the injury is unreasonably dangerous in construction or composition, unreasonably dangerous in design, unreasonably dangerous because of inadequate warning, or unreasonably dangerous because of nonconformity to express warranty. In order for a defective product to be considered unreasonably dangerous, the injury caused by the product must have been from a reasonably anticipated use of the product. In order for a product to be unreasonably dangerous in design, there must have existed an alternative design of the product that was capable of preventing the injury.

A court finding that a product is defective can have disastrous consequences for product manufacturers. Therefore, many product manufacturers will go to great lengths and expense to protect their products and their damaging internal documents. Inexperienced plaintiff product liability lawyers can be easily taken advantage of during the discovery process by product manufacturers who are willing to manipulate the system. Undercapitalized plaintiff product liability lawyers can be quickly outspent or even bankrupted by product manufacturers willing to spare no expense to protect their product.

The experienced and well-financed Baton Rouge, Louisiana product liability attorneys at Due', Price, Guidry, Piedrahita & Andrews have handled numerous product liability cases on behalf of seriously injured victims and their families. Product liability cases can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for failure analysis and crash testing and for expert witnesses in accident reconstruction, design, warnings, fire cause and origin, and biomechanics. For this reason, we only handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death product liability cases. Contact us today for a free consultation.

Most of our Louisiana trial lawyers' substantial accomplishments against product manufacturers are shielded by confidentiality agreements so we are unable to fully disclose our past results. However, we are able to disclose that we have handled a multiple death and multiple burn injury case against Daimler-Chrysler Corporation in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, involving an allegation that the bottom-mounted plastic fuel tank should have been shielded so as to prevent puncture and a fuel-fed fire on I-55 in Kentwood. Other representative cases include auto defect cases against General Motors (fuel fed fire, and failure of an air-bag to deploy upon frontal impact in Alexandria) and against Toyota (fuel fed fire in California and seat belt / seat back defects in Caldwell Parish).

Our Baton Rouge defective product attorneys have also handled defective product claims against many other manufacturers throughout the State of Louisiana, including for allegedly defective drugs (baby aspirin in Amite, New Orleans and Lafayette), industrial equipment (i.e. crane without anti-tube locking in Baton Rouge, and a horizontal boring machine around Opelousas), casino stool (lack of stability), ladder (defective fiberglass and molding in Monroe), microwave (magnetometer, thermal fuse and controls) and commercial deep fat fryer (lack of restraints in Bastrop). We are currently working on product liability cases against tire manufacturers (tread-separation and tire blow-outs in Baton Rouge and Livingston), automobile manufacturers for roll-overs (Baton Rouge and Livingston), and a fireworks manufacturer for a launcher blow-out (St. James Parish).

Contact the experienced Baton Rouge, Louisiana product liability lawyers at Due', Price, Guidry, Piedrahita & Andrews to schedule a FREE CONSULTATION.