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Defective and dangerous products
A manufacturer with a national defence budget on one side, and a broken product in your garage on the other.
Product claims turn on defect in design, defect in manufacture, or failure to warn — and on expert engineering evidence. The most important practical fact is almost always physical: whoever still has the product controls the case. Repairing, discarding or returning it can end a claim before it begins.
The forks in the road
What actually changes who should hold this file
Each of these moves the file to a different set of practitioners. All of them are in our intake.
Whether the product still exists
It is the single most important question. Preserve it unaltered, including packaging, manuals and receipts.
Whether a recall exists
A recall is helpful evidence but also starts clocks, and a claim can exist whether or not a recall was ever issued.
Class action overlap
An individual claim may be worth far more than a class recovery, or the class may be the only viable route. Opting out has deadlines, and this needs a deliberate decision rather than a default.
Where the manufacturer is
Foreign manufacturers raise jurisdiction and enforcement questions that shape whether the claim runs against the maker, the importer or the retailer.
The first weeks
What competent counsel does early
Not what they say in a consultation — what actually happens in the file while you are still recovering.
- Immediate physical preservation of the product and everything that came with it, unaltered.
- Engineering inspection under protocol so the defence cannot allege spoliation.
- A search for prior incidents, complaints and regulatory reports involving the same product.
These are expensive files that only a subset of firms will fund. If yours is one that should be run, the choice of firm is close to determinative.
Get this in front of someone who does it every week.
Ten minutes of intake, one name back, no cost and no obligation.
Defective and dangerous products by province
The limitation clock and the notice traps are provincial. Pick where it happened.
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