Miami Defective Car Attorney

A large portion of product liability litigation over the past few decades has focused on defective automobiles and defective automobile equipment, such as airbags, tires, seats, and seatbelts. Under Florida Law, vehicles must be “crashworthy,” meaning that manufacturers should anticipate that vehicles may be in accidents and design their vehicles to reasonably protect occupants during collisions.

Below are a few common examples of automobile product defects claims, though these claims can arise from a variety of circumstances.

Air Malfunction

Front and side airbags can effectively reduce or avoid injury to vehicle occupants. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), front airbags saved an estimated 32,544 lives between 1987 and 2010. However, automobile and equipment manufacturers sometimes allow defects in these complex safety systems which can result in severe lacerations, burn injuries, fractures, and death to vehicle occupants. According to NHTSA, there were 284 confirmed airbag-related fatalities between 1990 and 2008.

We rely on seatbelts to save lives and trust they will work when we put them on. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, seatbelts saved an estimated 12,546 lives in 2010 among occupants age 5 and older. Sadly, sometimes these basic safety devices fail or cause needless injury because of negligence at the design, manufacturing, or installation level. Those defects often go undetected until it is too late.

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