Personal Injury Law

Exploding Bottle Injury

As Orlando injury lawyers, we have represented clients who have needlessly suffered injury leading to blindness and partial loss of sight. In one tragedy, we took on a leading soft drink company who decided to sell dangerously bottled soft drinks. Recently, a foreign beer distributor is reported to have irresponsibly bottled its product and injured a 2-year-old boy-leaving him partially blind.

The parents allege in their federal lawsuit that the Corona brewery failed to catch a defect in a bottle that exploded near their son on the Fourth of July. According to the reports, Corona Brewery owned by Grupo Modelo, violated its obligation to protect consumers and the public generally from defective and dangerous products such as the bottle involved.

Fortunately, most manufacturers take consumer safety seriously and put forth a significant effort to do all that it reasonably can to avoid needless injury. For those who do not, the courts provide a means to hold reckless product manufacturers accountable for injury and death. In product liability trials it is important to remember that the jury is essentially asked to determine if the product meets reasonable expectations. So, whether it involves an exploding beer bottle or soft drink bottle; or, an exploding gas tank or tire, the jury will likely decide what is reasonable based on their common sense and the technology available.

Full post as published by Orlando Injury Lawyer Blog on August 22, 2008 (boomark / email).