Product Liability.

Some injuries are not caused by a careless person but by a dangerous product that never should have reached the person using it. When that happens, the company that made it, and often those that sold it, can be held to account.

Texas product liability law recognizes three kinds of defect. A manufacturing defect means the item came off the line different from its design and dangerous. A design defect means the design itself was unreasonably dangerous and a safer alternative was feasible. A marketing defect means the product lacked the warnings or instructions needed to use it safely. A claim can rest on strict liability, which focuses on the product rather than the maker's care, and on negligence.

These are document-and-expert cases. Proving a defect takes preserving the product exactly as it was, engineering analysis, the manufacturer's own design and testing records, and reports of similar failures. Preserving the physical product itself, unaltered, is often the single most important early step, because once it is repaired, discarded, or tampered with, the case can be lost.