Baton Rouge Product Liability Lawyer

Product Liability Attorney in Baton Rouge, LA

Dué Guidry Andrews Courrege is recognized by the U.S. News & World Report Best Law Firms rankings in the practice area of Product Liability Litigation-Plaintiffs for Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The experienced and well-financed Baton Rouge, Louisiana product liability lawyers at Dué Guidry Andrews Courrege have handled numerous products liability cases on behalf of seriously injured victims and their families. Product liability cases can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for failure analysis and crash testing, and for expert witnesses in accident reconstruction, design, warnings, fire cause and origin, and biomechanics. For this reason, we usually only handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death products liability cases.

Manufacturers of defective products are protected in Louisiana by the Louisiana Products Liability Act (LPLA), Louisiana Revised Statutes, 9:2800.51, et seq., which provides the exclusive theories of liability for defective products causing injury in Louisiana. Under the LPLA, a product manufacturer can be held liable only if the product that causes the injury is unreasonably dangerous in construction or composition, unreasonably dangerous in design, unreasonably dangerous because of inadequate warning, or unreasonably dangerous because of nonconformity to express warranty. In order for a defective product to be considered unreasonably dangerous, the injury caused by the product must have been from a reasonably anticipated use of the product. In order for a product to be unreasonably dangerous in design, there must have existed an alternative design of the product that was capable of preventing the injury.

A court finding that a product is defective can have disastrous consequences for product manufacturers. Therefore, many product manufacturers will go to great lengths and expense to protect their products and their damaging internal documents. Inexperienced plaintiff products liability lawyers can be easily taken advantage of during the discovery process by product manufacturers who are willing to manipulate the system. Under capitalized plaintiff products liability lawyers can be quickly outspent or even bankrupted by product manufacturers willing to spare no expense to protect their product.

Contact the experienced Baton Rouge, Louisiana defective product attorneys at Dué Guidry Andrews Courrege to schedule a FREE CONSULTATION.