VEHICLE DEFECTS

Motor vehicle defects cases rely on the doctrine of product liability. Product liability depicts the areas of law that handles the attempts to recover losses incurred due to the flaw in the product. The responsible party may be the manufacturer, the distributor, the designer, or the merchant of the product, or a combination of the parties mentioned above. Determining which party is at fault for the product defects and unexpected losses at the hand of the flaw relies on understanding the chain of responsibility amongst all parties and locate the origin of the defect. There are variations of the cases of product liability. The following are the three primary variations of product liability:

• Design Defect – This occurs if the design of the product is unsafe.
• Manufacturing Defect – If the design of the product is safe, but the method of making the product is not, then this would be a manufacturing defect.
• Warning Defect – When a product does not fulfill the extent of utilizing warnings or sufficient instructions about the use of the product and an injury occurs while using the mentioned product, this is a warning defect.