Pharmaceutical Products Liability

Product Liability

Every year, thousands of consumers sustain serious injuries from defective and products. Many of these injuries could be avoided if the manufacturers or distributors of these products took additional steps to ensure consumer safety. The main incentive to increase product safety is to avoid potential liability in product liability lawsuits, which provide compensation for the personal injuries sustained from the use of a defective product. The damages the consumer is entitled to receive may include compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, loss of physical capacity, pain, suffering, and mental anguish. Punitive damages are also available to punish defendants in those cases involving particularly egregious conduct which demonstrates a reckless or wanton disregard for the safety of the public.

As part of our personal injury and wrongful death practice, our lawyers assist injured individuals in bringing their claims for their injuries or death caused by a manufacturing flaw or defect, a design flaw or defect, or where a product is unreasonably dangerous because of inadequate instructions or warnings. We ensure that injured consumers or the family and heirs of deceased consumers receive fair treatment under the law and seek full and fair compensation for injuries caused by dangerous and defective products.

Our clients are often injured by the pharmaceutical products of major corporations. They suffer death, heart difficulties and other injuries including rare forms of injuries often complex to understand. Each case we have handled has received individual attention by our attorneys, and we consistently settle our cases for amounts higher than nation-wide averages.

Representative Cases:

• Our client went to a convenience store to get a cup of iced tea and discovered it contained cleaning solution when she took a drink. She sustained damage to her throat and vocal chords, requiring special treatment. Using product liability principles, we took the case through a jury trial, resulting in a sizable verdict in favor of our client.
  
• Our clients consumed seafood containing the neuro-toxin Ciguatera. This case is now pending, and we are attempting to educate the American consumer to the dangers of this tropical food poisoning which has been largely unaddressed in litigation to date. Our desire with this case is to introduce new food standards into the American distribution structure with regard to seafood.
  

The product liability cases are designed to recover for the injured but they serve a dual role. This is also the method by which manufacturers, distributors and retailers learn about the danger of their products. Our defective products attorneys are committed to improving the safety of products nationwide and try to structure settlements to not only maximize recovery for our client but also to help to insure no further reoccurrences. Contact the law firm of Rotts & Gibbs today.

Rotts & Gibbs, L.L.C.
1001 East Walnut Street
Suite 301
Columbia, Missouri 65201
Telephone: (573) 443-3463
Fax: (573) 443-7099
Email: rggllp@tranquility.net