With Christmas just gone and the sales underway, it is certain that a lot of us will have bought ourselves or someone else something new this year. It may be that our partner bought us that much anticipated pair of shoes we have been dreaming about, or that we bought our child that toy they had been obsessing over for months! Either way, whatever product we have given or received, it will have needed to pass a number of health and safety checks before it reached us.
Hopefully the gift you sent or received will have been what they wanted and brought them happiness around this wonderful time of year. Unfortunately, (here’s the depressing bit) not all products will have brought happiness – in fact, in some cases, some of them may have actually being defective. A defective product comes in many forms and often causes the person using the product to suffer an injury.
In some cases the company that supplied the product will realise that it is unsafe before anyone becomes injured, and will conduct what is called a “product recall”. This is where all the products that are seen to be harmful are collected back in by the supplier to prevent anyone from suffering such an injury.
In Britain we have strict health and safety regulations that prevent any products that do not abide by these being sold in stores to the public. However, in rare cases, some products slip though the net and those using them find them to be faulty. If you have suffered injury due to using a faulty product you may be able to make an injury compensation claim.
If the product caused the consumer harm when using it, then you may be able to make a claim for negligence against the manufacturer or even the supplier of the product. Toyota recently had to recall a number of their vehicles as they were faulty and could have put motorist’s lives at risk.
There are various types of accidents that can be caused by a defective product. It may be that a pair of high heels somebody purchased snapped beneath their feet, causing them to break their ankle. Or that the breaks on a bicycle you purchased for either you or your child failed to work, causing an injury.
If you would like more information on making an injury compensation claim, contact the Injury Lawyers for free and friendly legal advice.
