Hazardous Products

Complex product liability cases demand a skilled, experienced lawyer. State and federal laws provide extensive remedies for injuries caused by defective consumer and homeowner products, including monetary compensation for pain and suffering, lost wages, and past and future medical expenses. Defendant manufacturers fight hard to prevent disclosure of their internal documents and emails because all too often these records demonstrate a striking lack of concern for consumer safety. Attorney Michael Workman has successfully represented injured consumers in cases arising from the defective design and manufacture of a wide variety of consumer, household, and industrial products, including medical devices, swimming pool equipment, automobile restraint systems, amusement park rides, pleasure boats, exercise equipment, and construction equipment.

SWIMMING POOL FILTERS. Attorney Michael Workman is one of the leading plaintiff’s attorneys prosecuting injury claims caused by the catastrophic explosion of highly pressurized swimming pool filters. These two-piece filter canisters often explode without warning. The trapped, compressed air inside these pool filters can rocket the filter top over 100 feet in the air. Pool Filter Explosion Video. Feasible design alternatives to eliminate these explosions have been available for decades, yet despite over 200 incidents of traumatic brain injury, and multiple deaths, many manufacturers still refuse to retrofit or recall these backyard time bombs. Michael’s most recent victory was as co-counsel in achieving a $700,000 settlement for a Maryland homeowner who suffered a closed head injury when the top half of his pool filter blew off and struck him in the forehead. A few years ago, Michael was instrumental in resolving a similar case in which a young father suffered blindness and severe brain damage in a pool filter explosion. Over the last 14 years, Michael has successfully sued the major swimming pool equipment manufacturers, including Anthony Industries, Anthony Pools, Pac-Fab, Sta-Rite, Voss, R.G. Ray Co., Pentair, and KDI American Products.

Hazardous Products

Attorney Michael Workman has successfully represented injured consumers in cases arising from the defective design and manufacture of a wide variety of consumer, household, and industrial products, including medical devices, swimming pool equipment, automobile restraint systems, amusement park rides, pleasure boats, exercise equipment, and construction equipment.

Other Representative Product Liability Cases:

26-year-old woman sustained back injuries caused by a defective amusement park ride.

27-year-old woman suffered a spinal fracture following the negligent application of an untested, unapproved medical brace.

Young woman thrown off bow of pleasure boat sustained severe propeller gashes to her leg, and eventual amputation, due to the boat manufacturer’s failure to install a propeller guard.

35-year-old man suffered a disc herniation in his back while using a defective exercise machine.

Hazardous Products

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