Product Liability Attorney

If a product hurt you or a family member: keep the product and its packaging, and do not repair, return, or throw it away. Save the receipt, manual, and any warnings. Take photos of the product and your injuries, and write down where and when you bought it. The product itself is often the most important evidence.

Products We Handle

Caquias Law Group, PLLC handles injury and wrongful death claims involving:

• Vehicle parts, tires, airbags, and seat belts
• Elevators and escalators. See our article on elevator and escalator injuries in Texas.
• Gas station equipment, such as fuel dispensers, hoses, and nozzles
• Tools, ladders, and industrial and oil field equipment
• Household appliances, pressure cookers, and batteries
• Vape pens and e-cigarettes
• Children’s products and furniture
• Medical devices
• Herbal and dietary supplements

The Three Types of Product Defects

Under Texas law, a product may be unreasonably dangerous because of a defect in its manufacturing, design, or marketing (American Tobacco Co. v. Grinnell, 951 S.W.2d 420 (Tex. 1997)):

• Manufacturing defect. The product left the factory different from its intended design, such as a cracked part or a contaminated batch.
• Design defect. The design itself is dangerous. The injured person must prove that a safer alternative design existed and that the defect was a producing cause of the injury. A safer alternative design is one that would have prevented or significantly reduced the risk without substantially impairing the product’s usefulness, and that was economically and technologically feasible when the product left the manufacturer or seller (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 82.005).
• Marketing defect. The product lacked adequate warnings or instructions. A failure to warn of a product’s dangers, when warnings are required, is a type of marketing defect (Grinnell).