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Products Liability

When a person suffers injury as a result of contact with a specific product, the legal issues raised can be complex. If the product was defective in design, manufacture, or labeling, or there was a failure to warn of some risk, the injured person may have grounds for a legal claim against the manufacturer or seller. However, if the injured person's misuse of the product was at least a partial cause of the injury, in North Carolina the manufacturer and seller are generally not liable. In addition to case law developed by the North Carolina appellate courts over decades, products liability claims and defenses to such claims are governed by the North Carolina Product Liability Act.

Whether you have suffered harm from a defective product, or you are the manufacturer or seller of a product, you have legal options – but you need the assistance of an experienced products liability attorney to protect your rights. The Pinto Coates Kyre & Brown firm has filed claims on behalf of injured persons and has defended companies in a large number of products liability lawsuits. Because we have handled both sides of these issues, we are familiar with many of the challenges you will face in a products liability claim, and we recognize which issues are most likely to affect the outcome of your case. We consult with necessary experts to help with factual issues, such as causation and whether a product was defective, and we use our extensive understanding of the applicable laws to build a case for each client.

Our attorneys have the experience and knowledge necessary to either represent individuals who believe they have been harmed by a product or to defend a company who has manufactured or sold a product that allegedly caused an injury.

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Legal Decisions of Interest

  • The N.C. Supreme Court held that a liability insurance company had no duty to defend its insured in a trademark infringement action where the claims asserted were not covered by the CGL policy because the claims that the insured misrepresented … Continue reading →
  • Unfair and deceptive dealings among business partners are not deemed as having occurred “in commerce” and hence they do not give rise to a claim between such partners under the Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act.  White v. Thompson, No. … Continue reading →
  • Appeal to the Court of Appeals was dismissed because the appellant failed to serve parties in the case who did not appeal. Lee v. Winget Road, LLC, No. COA09-828 (N.C. App. May 18, 2010).  Click here for a copy of … Continue reading →
  • Where a county’s liability insurance policy excluded coverage of any claim that would be barred by governmental immunity, that county has not waived the governmental immunity defense even though it had purchased the liability insurance policy. Estate of Early v. … Continue reading →
  • An employer is not liable for an injury caused by an off-duty employee even though the negligent act of the employee and the resulting injury occurred on the employer’s premises.  Matthews v. Food Lion, LLC, No. COA10-73 (N.C. App. July … Continue reading →
  • The appellate court reiterated the established principle that a plaintiff who brings a personal injury action alleging that he sustained and will continue to suffer physical and mental/emotional pain has impliedly waived his physician-patient privilege.  Lowd v. Reynolds, No. COA09-505 … Continue reading →
  • The trial court properly ordered that one of two contested wills be deemed the valid and enforceable one without a trial as a sanction for one of the party’s failure to comply with a court order to respond to written … Continue reading →
  • A claim involving an alleged invalid warrant was properly dismissed for failure to state a claim pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) where the Complaint set for merely the conclusory allegation that the warrant was insufficient, and there were no allegations explaining … Continue reading →

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