Sometimes, but that is why you need an experienced product liability lawyer on your side.
Big corporations never want to admit that they produced a dangerously defective product, and they often put up a hard fight. In some cases, one consumer’s lawsuit could pose a threat to the entire business. A Philadelphia product liability suit can cost tens of millions of dollars to defend, and can lead to hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars in liability.
Experienced Philadelphia product liability lawyers have the skill and resources to match big corporations blow-for-blow in a legal fight.
To prove their clients’ cases, they often:
Hire expert witnesses: Expert witnesses—especially design engineers and forensic scientists—tend to play an outsized role in product liability cases, because victims’ lawyers must prove the existence of a defect, if not also its cause.
Represent multiple victims as a class: Sometimes, the most effective way to take the fight to a manufacturer that made a dangerous product is to assert claims on behalf of lots of consumers all at once, in what is known as a class action Representing consumers as a class can give lawyers the ability to force corporations to own up to widespread defects and to take steps to protect against more people getting hurt.
Work with whistleblowers: Sometimes, a brave employee of a manufacturer may step forward to reveal that the company knew about, and failed to address, a potentially dangerous defect in its products.