Product liability holds product manufacturers, distributors, and retailers accountable for injuries, damages, and fatalities caused by defective products. If you were injured or lost a loved one due to a defect in a product or warranty breach, you’ll want to speak to an experienced Miami product liability lawyer with Englander Peebles.

Call (954) 500-4878 to schedule a free consultation to explore your legal options for securing financial compensation.

Why Choose Our Miami Product Liability Lawyers?

Englander Peebles is a small law firm dedicated to delivering big firm results. We know what our clients have endured because we’ve been through the process ourselves and with loved ones. This unique insight allows us to build trustworthy attorney-client relationships, knowing we sincerely care about your position and claim.

Our lawyers have recovered millions of dollars for our Miami clients who sustained injuries from defective products, slip and fall accidents, car accidents, commercial truck collisions, and more.

Free and Confidential Consultations

The attorneys at Englander Peebles provide free consultations for injured individuals pursuing compensation through a product liability claim. During our meeting, we will assess the details of your incident, evaluate the defective product (when available), answer your questions, and provide an honest assessment of how we can secure a settlement for your damages. Any information you share with us during our free consultation remains confidential.

Contingency Fee Arrangements

We work within contingency fee arrangements to provide peace of mind for injured parties who must prioritize rehabilitation, rest, and recovery. These arrangements guarantee you don’t pay anything out-of-pocket to retain our legal representation. Our Miami product liability lawyers work tirelessly to secure a full and fair settlement for our clients.

You don’t owe us a dime if we don’t win your product liability claim. That means there are zero financial risks to hiring an experienced Miami product liability lawyer at Englander Peebles. Trust us to significantly value your damages and negotiate higher compensation than you’d garner without an attorney.

Thorough Case Investigations

Our attorneys conduct thorough case investigations to build a solid case and establish all liable parties before valuing claims and sending our demands. Our process includes gathering and preserving the evidence in your claim, interviewing eyewitnesses, and analyzing evidence with relevant expert witnesses. Depending on the circumstances of your accident and injuries, evidence in a product liability claim includes:

• The defective product
• Records documenting the purchase
• Documentation of the defect 
• Medical records of your injuries
• Photos and video of the product, incident, and injuries
• Product manuals and warnings
• Expert witness testimony from scientists, engineers, and other professionals
• Internal communications revealing the manufacturer’s knowledge of potential defects or problems

Similar accident evidence demonstrating a history of accidents and injuries caused by the same or similar products helps prove that it was a widespread defect and that the manufacturer was aware of the issue. You can depend on a Miami product liability lawyer from Englander Peebles to build a solid case for substantial compensation. Call at (954) 500-4878 to schedule a free consultation. Our office is conveniently located in Washington Square:

Englander Peebles

111 NW 183rd Street

Suite 107

Miami, FL 33169

By Appointment Only

How Much Is a Miami Product Liability Claim Worth?

How much your Miami product liability claim is worth depends on factors ranging from insurance policy limits to the severity of injuries and their impact on your future and daily life. We understand the financial devastation of sudden, unexpected injuries at Englander Peebles. Our attorneys carefully evaluate the actual damages—your economic and non-economic losses—to ensure full compensation for product liability claims.

Economic Damages

The economic damages in product liability claims consist of monetary losses that can be proved by paper. Healthcare costs are a substantial portion of these damages, including all medical expenses relating to your injuries. You must keep billing statements of emergency treatments, hospitalizations, medical and surgical procedures, and orthopedic care. Rehabilitation services, such as physical therapy and chiropractic adjustments, medical devices, and prescription costs are recoverable with receipts.

Other economic damages our legal team assesses include the following:

• Long-Term Care: We work alongside your medical providers, healthcare experts, and economists to evaluate injuries that require ongoing or long-term care. They account for factors, including inflation, to ensure full calculations.
• Property Damages: When defective products cause property damage, we can recover the expenses. Examples of property damages include prescription eyeglasses, jewelry, and clothing.
• Lost Earnings: Missed work comes with recoverable income losses. A Miami product liability lawyer on our team will comprehensively evaluate all lost wages, salaries, and non-compensation losses, such as bonuses, commissions, and tips. Lost healthcare benefits, pension packages, and retirement plans also encompass lost earnings.
• Diminished Earning Capacity: If injuries cause you to have functional limitations due to physical, psychological, or cognitive restrictions or prevent you from returning to the job you had before your injuries, our attorneys collaborate with vocational rehabilitation experts to determine diminished earning capacity.
• Household Services: Injuries or disabilities that prevent one from performing household tasks can incur household service costs. These include assistance with cleaning, laundry, cooking, shopping, childcare, pet care, and home and yard maintenance. Vocational experts in our network help analyze these services after assessing pre-injury ability, the scope of lost ability and tasks, and the market value of household services.
• Funeral Expenses: In the event of wrongful death, our attorneys calculate funeral and memorial service costs, as well as burial and cremation expenses.

Unique circumstances warrant other economic expenses. Injured parties must keep all documentation highlighting their financial losses, including medical bills. Our Miami product liability lawyers ensure accurate calculations of all economic damages. If you have incurred costs not on this list, we can clarify their relevance and recovery.

Non-Economic Damages

Non-economic damages are compensation for intangible losses in product liability claims. They aren’t as easily quantifiable in monetary terms. However, our lawyers confidently assess these damages with experts, including medical professionals, economists, and vocational rehabilitation specialists, to ensure full compensation. You deserve to be compensated for intangible losses, such as:

• Your physical aches, discomforts, and pain
• Trouble sleeping due to pain, nightmares, and insomnia
• Permanent impairment, disfigurement, and disability
• A decreased quality of life
• Loss of society and companionship
• Loss of physical relations
• Limitations or restrictions on daily activities
• A shortened life expectancy or your lost years due to injury or disability
• Psychological impacts, including anxiety, depression, fear, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 

Detailed medical records, expert witness testimony, and detailed pain journals demonstrate pain and suffering damages. It is the claimant’s responsibility to document pain levels and frequency, methods of pain management, emotional distress, and psychological trauma due to their accident and injuries.

Trust a Miami product liability lawyer at Englander Peebles to evaluate the damages in your product liability claim or lawsuit. We understand how much the circumstances of product liability claims are worth and maximize compensation demands.

Punitive Damages

Unlike actual damages, which compensate the injured party for their losses, punitive damages intend to punish the defendant for their heinous actions and serve as a deterrent to others from repeating the offense. They are owed by defendants, not insurers, and are only awarded in three to five percent of all verdicts. Englander Peebles cannot calculate or estimate punitive damages. Only a jury decides when to apply them and how much to award.

Wrongful Death Benefits

Families mourning the negligent and unexpected loss of a loved one may have the legal right to file or sue for wrongful death benefits. While we understand that no amount of money can compensate for the loss of a loved one, it helps with the immediate financial burdens and hardships processing and grieving your loss incurs.

Englander Peebles holds liable manufacturers accountable when a defective product causes wrongful death. In addition to final arrangement expenses, wrongful death claimants can recover final healthcare costs, lost earnings, and pain and suffering. A loss of financial support, guidance, consortium, and inheritance can also be pursued, pending circumstances.

Types of Product Liability Accidents

A prevalent product liability claim involves a breach of warranty, which occurs when a product breaches an expressed or implied warranty. For example, if a salesperson sells you a product that they express is noiseless but turns out to be loud. Or if a laptop’s warranty implies it lasts five years but malfunctions or breaks in two. The primary categories of product liability accidents are as follows:

• Design Defects: Design defects occur when a product’s design is unsafe despite safer alternatives being available. Examples of product design defects include vehicles with higher gravity, making them prone to rollovers (SUVs), unstable furniture, safety guards on power tools that don’t protect hands, crib bars spaced too far apart where a baby’s head may get stuck, and toys with small parts that are choking hazards.
• Manufacturing Defects: Manufacturing defects occur when products deviate from their intended design during production, resulting in flaws or defects, such as using inferior or the wrong materials, inadequate quality control, faulty wiring, and faulty assembly. Examples of defective products with manufacturing defects include faulty airbags, brakes, seat belts, fireworks, helmets, pools with structural defects, and children’s highchairs with faulty locking mechanisms. 
• Marketing Defects: Marketing defects occur when a product’s marketing materials fail to warn consumers about potential dangers or provide inadequate instructions for safe use, leading to possible harm. Examples of marketing defects include misleading or false claims, improper labeling, and failure to warn about side effects (medications and medical devices). Products that commonly have these defects include appliances, automotive components, tires, toys, and chemicals.

Retailers selling defective products can be responsible for injuries and damages if they knew or had reason to know of the defect (negligence), even if they didn’t manufacture or distribute the products. In some cases, strict product liability holds retailers liable for injuries caused by defective products, regardless of whether they were negligent or meant to harm. Our attorneys have experience navigating negligent and strict product liability claims with optimal outcomes.

Common Injuries Caused by Defective Products

Depending on the nature of the product liability accident, defective products can cause various injuries, ranging from minor to moderate, severe, and even fatal. Accident victims should not delay medical care, evaluations, and treatments. Soft tissue injuries commonly occur with product defects, such as bruising, contusions (muscle bruises), sprains, and strains. Other injuries that are typical of defective products include the following:

• Amputations
• Broken bones and fractures
• Burns from flammable products and explosions
• Choking injuries
• Cuts and lacerations
• Eye injuries
• Internal organ damage
• Poisoning and toxic exposure 
• Traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Wrongful death

The extent of your injuries and their overall impact on daily life and your future significantly influence your compensation amount. The more severe the injuries and impact, the more substantial the settlement. Detailed medical documentation of injuries is crucial for ensuring injured parties receive the compensation they deserve.

Our attorneys work alongside treating medical providers and healthcare experts in our network to provide meticulously accurate documentation of diagnoses, treatments, long-term care needs, and prognosis.

Englander Peebles Fights for Full Compensation

Insurance companies cannot be trusted to assign fair valuations to damages or pay reasonable settlements without a Miami product liability lawyer attached to your claim. At Englander Peebles, we believe in securing what our clients deserve and fight for full compensation. Our attorneys understand and prepare for insurance methods commonly used to delay, deny, and devalue valid product liability claims.

On the rare occasions that insurers refuse to pay legitimate claims reasonably through negotiations, we will file a civil lawsuit and take them to court for your damages. You can depend on us to see your case through to achieve your desired outcome. Only about five percent of personal injury cases end up in litigation and are resolved in court.

Speak to an Experienced Miami Product Liability Lawyer

You deserve caring and informed legal advice to address your concerns and protect your rights after being injured due to a defective product. Call Englander Peebles at (954) 500-4878 to speak to an experienced Miami product liability lawyer now. We are here to answer your questions and offer valuable insight on securing a fair and full settlement for your product liability claim or lawsuit.