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Product Liability Claims

A case of product liability can be caused against a manufacturing company, a distributor of the goods, a supplier and a retailer for a wrongful sale of goods of common usage. They are held liable for any damage or injury that may be caused from the use of a consumer good.

The primary reasons of complain are based on the following.

• Product liability relates to all tangible property
• In case of manufacturing defects
• If there is a defect in the design of a product
• If there is an absence of a statutory warning on the product package that can be termed as a product liability

In case of the above a claim can be made against the company or the chain of those associated with it that are dealing with products of consumer usage. It could be anything from an ordinary product of daily use to that of an important one like an air travel where a consumer may have met with trouble during usage.

Defenses to Product Liability Claims

There are certain ways a manufacturer is relieved from owing the responsibility of causing any harmful damage to the user with his product. And this happens if there are any signs of any alteration that is found in a product after it has left the control or the premises of the manufacturer.

There have been cases where it has been found that the cause of damage to a claimant has not been the actual or the original products made by a manufacturer. There has been sufficient alteration in the product and that was beyond the scope of the manufacturer’s control. In such cases the plea of a claimant against a manufacturer is not held strongly.

Chrysler Product Liability Claims

The Chrysler Group LLC is an automobile manufacturer that is based out of Detroit in the state of Michigan in the United States of America. It has several brands of passenger vehicles as well as sports utility vehicles.

Some of its well known brands are Chrysler, Dodge, Ram and Jeep among others.

In the year 1987 there was a controversy that stated that Chrysler sold around 32000 cars with disconnected odometers. This was later settled by the company in an out of court settlement with its clients and buyers. It was declared as a fault that was both ‘dumb and unforgivable’ by the then CO of the company Lee Iacocca.

The present day management of Chrysler has owned responsibility for product liability claims made by users and buyers for product related accidents that occurred after the emergence of the company from its bankruptcy protection. These are the vehicles that were manufactured by the old company.