John is currently a Director of the Tarrant County Trial Lawyers Association and a Fellow Member of the Tarrant County Bar Foundation. Dallas personal injury lawyer John Michael Cummings is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Texas Trial Lawyers Association, Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association and the Tarrant County Bar Association.

John is married to Kory Cummings and they have two children: Katherine and Sarah. He is a deacon in his church and is very involved in church activities. John also enjoys bird hunting, fishing, camping, sailing and shooting sports.

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Defective products harm hundreds of thousands of people every year. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, some 200,000 kids make trips to the hospital annually because of defective toys. Many of these trips are the result of a defective product or defective product design.

The cost of a defective products lawsuit can be high, both financially and emotionally. The insurance company defending the defective product’s manufacturer has a lot to gain by winning your case and denying you financial compensation to you. Because the stakes are so high, you should seek out a Dallas defective products lawyer who has the experience and resources to battle these companies. You should consider taking your defective products case to Dallas defective product lawyer Steven C. Laird today for a free case evaluation.

What Defines A Defective Product?

If a product isn’t safe for the use it was designed for, then it’s a defective product. Sometimes the defective product derives its dangerous nature from bad design, as with three-wheel all-terrain vehicles. Other times, a flaw in the manufacturing process causes the creation of a defective product. For example, a badly-installed fuel line in a car can cause explosions. The McDonald’s hot coffee case is another example of a product that wasn’t safe for people to use or consume, partly because it was badly produced and partly because customers weren’t properly warned of its dangers. In that case, McDonald’s served their coffee at an excessively high temperature to hide the beverage’s watery nature, but the coffee scalded and scarred consumers when spilled in their laps. Of the various kinds of defective product cases, the cases involving a manufacturing defect tend to be most difficult to prove.

Dallas Defective Product Cases

Defective product cases are difficult and full of complexities. To win a defective product case, you need a Dallas defective products lawyer with the skill, aggressiveness and experience to navigate all of the defective products law hurdles.

First, your Dallas defective products lawyer must demonstrate either a failure to properly warn consumers, a manufacturing defect or a defect in the design of the product. Some of these legal points can be quite tricky to prove. As mentioned earlier, a manufacturing defect often is difficult to demonstrate because the product in question is often destroyed or demolished when the accident occurs. If a unique defect causes a Coke bottle to explode from abnormally high pressure, it can be hard to prove the cause because the bottle no longer exists.

Fortunately, most defective product laws are stricter on manufacturers, freeing victims from having to prove them negligent. A defective products lawyer only has to prove that the product was unusually dangerous or flawed, causing personal injury to the victim. Of course, the defective product law varies from region to region.

Steven C. Laird: Dallas Defective Product Lawyer

A good Dallas defective products lawyer understands the extremes of suffering and financial hardship that can result from a defective product injury. Such a lawyer also can navigate the extreme financial interests and pinpoint complicated elements of causation which may require costly expert testimony.

You need a Dallas defective products lawyer with the expertise to pathfind your case through the complex waters of the defective product law code and with the resources to get the expert testimony in the field to support your lawsuit. Contact the skilled Dallas defective product lawyers at the Law Offices of Steven C. Laird, P.C. for a free case evaluation today.