Products liability -- suits for injuries caused for malfunctioning and poorly designed products -- is a complex and specialized area of law, requiring significant legal and technical expertise. This type of case takes longer to resolve and is less likely to settle because manufacturers fight these claims as hard as they can. They’re afraid a settlement in your case will open the floodgates for other persons their products have injured.
This is why product manufacturers, distributors, and their insurers hire well-trained attorneys to defend these claims, and often bury or hide facts which show that they are know about design or manufacturing shortcomings. They also have in house experts who will justify or explain away every misstep the company has done.
Compare that to an injured plaintiff with no understanding or knowledge of product design, and you see the inherent unfairness already built in to these claims.
Product liability attorneys must have working knowledge of the both the legal doctrines (such as the so-called “strict liability claims” and legal bars to recovery) and product design background —and have qualified experts on call. Attorneys in the field know Dan's expertise in all of these areas and his reputation for strong results, as his membership in the Multimillion Dollar Advocates Forum demonstrates. Even experienced Plaintiff lawyers and law professors throughout Massachusetts refer their product-injured clients to Dan to achieve maximum results.
Why was this product dangerous? How did it cause injury?
MALIS LAW has had great success in product liability claims. We don't just litigate -- we innovate, establishing liability against companies who have had decades of success frustrating people injured by their products or machines. We find theories (both in how products are misdesigned or poorly manufactured, and how that led to a client's injury) that other attorneys missed, and we’ve recovered multimillion-dollar settlements for seriously injured victims from companies who have historically successfully avoided liability. We are a“lawyer’s lawyer” in this area, meaning other attorneys refer to us their complicated cases that require technical knowledge, skill and mastery of litigation tactics, and most important, the willingness to fight.
- Product design
- Ergonomics
- Engineering
- Physics
- Materials
- Manufacturing
- And more
We have litigated, tried, and settled these claims for over 40 years. With our collective experience, we have achieved million dollar results in cases other lawyers have rejected, referred or run away from. We'll put those skills to work on your case.
Products Liability Is:
Litigation for injuries caused by the defective design or manufacture of a product.
Product liability includes injuries caused by:
Defectively manufactured or designed products
Poisonous or toxic products
Improper instructions or warnings
Dangerous products
Contact Us
617-491-1099
30 Second St.
Cambridge, MA 02141
MALIS|LAW serves clients throughout Massachusetts, with a central office in Cambridge, MA and satellite meeting spaces in the Merrimack Valley and on Massachusetts’ South Coast. Our local presence in these areas gives clients ready access to our firm and our resources.
While we can schedule meetings in any of those areas, we recognize that we serve injured people who may not be able to leave their homes to meet initially. Dan will come to you wherever you are to speak with you and personally manage your case. While we always want to get to know our clients personally, disabled clients also appreciate our familiarity with on line streaming services like Zoom , and our internet-based case management system allows for immediate data entry and a prompt commencement of your case.
Our central office in Cambridge provides easy 2-minute access from Route 93 in Cambridge, and steps from the Green Line Lechmere MBTA stop.