Did a defective car seat cause injury to your child? Our Pennsylvania lawyers can help!

Defective car seats can cause devastating injuries to children. Car seats and booster seats are designed to protect children from injuries that may occur in a car accident. Unfortunately, if the car seat or booster seat is defective, some children involved in car accidents suffer additional injuries to the ones sustained in the actual accident.

In 2001, there were still 23 deaths and 5,156 injuries of varying degree to children involved in accidents in Pennsylvania even though a child seat was being used.

If a car seat or booster seat has a manufacturing defect, it may not perform the way it is intended to perform. Therefore, you may have a products liability legal claim against the manufacturer of that car seat or booster seat, even though the manufacturer did not cause the accident.

A products liability claim may be brought against the manufacturer of the car seat or booster seat as well as the supplier, distributor or retailer. Manufacturers and sellers of dangerous goods can be sued for negligence under various circumstances, including:

• Failure to inspect or test the child safety seat before placing it on the market
• Creating a flaw in the child safety seat
• Failing to discover a flaw in the child safety seat
• Failure to discover that the child safety seat could be dangerous
• Failure to warn or adequately warn of a risk or hazard associated with the child safety seat

A person injured by a defective child safety seat may have a product liability claim if the person:

• was the purchaser of the child safety seat and an injury occurred while using it
• was an innocent bystander and was injured by the child safety seat
• borrowed the defective child safety seat and an injury occurred while using it

It is important to know your legal rights if your child has been injured in a car accident. The attorneys at Edgar Snyder & Associates can help to determine if a defect in a car or booster seat caused further injury.

Injured in a car accident? Put our experience to work for you.

For over 25 years, our attorneys have represented more than 30,000 people who have been injured in all types of accidents including car accidents. In addition our legal team has answered over 350,000 injury-related legal questions. When an injury from a car accident occurs and legal help is needed, experience counts.

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If you, or someone you care about, have been injured in a car accident, you can contact our law firm for a free evaluation by:

• Filling out a simple online form so we can evaluate your claim
• Calling toll free 1-866-227-6038. Our phones answer 24 hours a day/7 days a week

Our law firm will evaluate your claim free of charge and advise you on your legal rights to collect compensation. There is no obligation to use our services, and there is never a fee unless we get money for you.