Consumers have a right to expect the products they buy to be safe and to work as intended. When they don’t, things can go seriously wrong, and people can be hurt.
When a manufacturer or seller of a dangerous or defective product is held accountable for injuring a consumer, it’s called products liability. In fact, anyone who exposes a consumer to the dangers of a defective product – from the maker of the product, or its component parts, to the wholesaler and retailer – can be held responsible for that product and the injuries it causes.