Recovering Compensation After a Defective Product Injury
People are harmed by defective medical products every day from medical devices to dangerous pharmaceuticals. Learning how a defective product claim is made in Louisiana can help you understand you have rights when it comes to your health.
The Louisiana Products Liability Act (LPLA) is a state law on the responsibility and liability manufacturers have when they design or produce a product that is either dangerous or defective or fails to provide adequate warnings on its use. When someone is injured or dies and used the medicine or medical product in the way in which it was intended, the manufacturer can be held financially liable for the damages the product caused.
At least one of the criteria that follow has to be met to place a claim against a manufacturer for injuries or a fatality caused by their product:
- The product’s design caused an unreasonable danger.
- The composition or the product or its construction caused an unreasonable danger.
- The warning label on the product was inadequate to warn of the dangers it posed.
- The product warranty was faulty.
What the Louisiana Products Liability Act Covers
The LPLA covers many different products from children’s toys and clothing to household products, furniture, automobiles and more. Medicinal drugs that are dangerous or harmful are also covered, except for vaccines, which are handled by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. In some cases, so many injuries...
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