Mooney & Associates Provides Experienced, Professional Services in a Sensitive and Compassionate Manner to Accident Victims and their Families.

One of the first duties of a personal injury lawyer after a car, truck, or motorcycle accident is to determine the cause of the accident that injured a client or killed a family member of a client. A rear-end collision, a T-bone crash, a sideswipe, a crosswalk accident, a car-bicycle accident, or a chain reaction multi-vehicle crash may have been the result of any number of factors, including driver inattention, hazardous road conditions, or defective vehicle components.

To discuss the causes, injuries, and legal remedies associated with your traffic accident in Pennsylvania, contact Mooney & Associates in Hanover, New Oxford, or York for a free consultation with one of our knowledgeable lawyers.

With three office locations, dedicated office staff, and zealous attorneys, we are well prepared to handle injury claims when defective auto parts are found to have caused or contributed to an accidental injury. We file lawsuits and take cases to court if that is necessary to help our clients obtain the maximum compensation after they have suffered serious or catastrophic injuries because of:

• • Faulty airbags
• • Defective seat belts
• • Bad brakes
• • Lack of roll bars in roofs of SUVs
• • Tire tread separation

We represent families with wrongful death claims arising from fatal auto accidents caused or exacerbated by auto defects. We fight for full and fair compensation for losses suffered by the victims (and their wives, husbands, and children) including:

• • Medical expenses
• • Rehabilitation therapy
• • Lost wages and benefits
• • Pain and suffering, including the loss of enjoyment of life
• • Funeral and related expenses

Our auto defect lawyers vigorously pursue compensation for our clients’ injuries, losses, pain, and suffering. Our focus at Mooney & Associates is not to pursue a frivolous auto defect lawsuit, but we are serious about doing what it takes to protect the rights of victims to compensation after a serious or catastrophic injury.

We thoroughly investigate each case, working as needed in cooperation with other professionals, such as auto parts specialists and medical doctors.

Do not delay and miss important time limits or filing deadlines on your auto defect accident claim. If you have been injured in a motorcycle accident, car accident, bicycle or pedestrian accident, drunk driving crash or truck accident, we urge you to contact our York, Hanover, or New Oxford law offices today. Consultations are free. We do not collect attorneys’ fees until and unless we recover money for you.

If you have been injured in a drunk driver car crash or automobile, motorcycle, bicycle, pedestrian, or truck accident, we urge you to call toll free 877-632-4656, e-mail us, or fill out our intake form located on our Contact us page today. Consultations are free. We do not collect a fee unless we recover money for you. Don’t delay because there are time limits on your claim.

PRODUCTS LIABILITY LAW

The products you buy and use should be reliable and safe.  Often people are injured because a product manufacturer puts a product on the market that has a flawed design, is not manufactured properly, or is not produced with adequate warnings.  Suffering a personal injury or economic loss because of defective product may entitle you to compensation.

“Product liability” is the general legal term for laws that protect consumers from harm caused to them by products sold in the United States.  Under the protection of product liability law, consumers often are able to recover monetary damages stemming from injuries sustained as a result of defective or dangerous products. 

Pursuant to Pennsylvania’s product liability laws, the manufacturer and supplier essentially guarantee product’s safety once it is on the market and being used by consumers.  All products which may reasonably cause some harm when used should have clearly labeled warnings.  The failure to provide adequate warnings may constitute a defective product, even if the product is used in a normal manner.

Product liability claims generally fall into three categories: (1) negligence, (2) strict liability, and (3) breach of warranty.

A negligence claim consists of:

• • A duty by the manufacturer;
• • A breach of that duty;
• • A causal connection between the breach and a resulting injury to a victim; and
• • Damages (injuries).

A product liability negligence claim usually falls into one of three possible types:

• • Manufacturing Defects;
• • Design Defects;
• • Failure to Warn.

With Strict Liability claims the focus is on the product itself.  The basic element of this type of claim is proof that the product is defective or dangerous.  Similar to negligence claims, strict liability claims look at a product’s warnings, design, and manufacture.  Most of the tests used to determine whether a product is defective focus on the consumer’s expectations, whether there is a safer design alternative, whether the manufacturer properly balanced the product’s risk versus its utility, and whether the dangers were obvious to the consumer.  To win a strict liability claim, you must prove that the product had an unreasonably dangerous defect that caused your injury and that the fault occurred during the product’s design, manufacture, or during shipping or handling.  You must prove that the defect caused your injury even though you were using the product in the way the manufacturer said it was intended to be used and that no substantial changes occurred in the product from its original purchase condition.

Warranties are guarantees (express or implied in law) that the product will be able to be used as promised or as should be reasonably expected.

Because product liability laws can be so complex, it is often a good idea to contact an experienced law firm if you or someone you love has been injured.  It is important that you contact an attorney as soon as an injury caused by a defective product has occurred.  Time for filing claims and lawsuits is limited.  If you fail to present claims or file suit in the appropriate court within the time deadlines, you may be forever barred from pursuing your claims.  Contact Mooney & Associates for a FREE evaluation of your product liability injury case.

Open the link below to view a list of some common products that have caused injuries which our attorneys are now investigating.

Dangerous Products List

When your future is at stake, contact Mooney & Associates. The attorney you choose does make a difference.

Mooney & Associates, Attorneys at Law, serves clients in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York cities and counties including the following: New Oxford, York, Lancaster, Chambersburg, Shippensburg, Gettysburg, Elizabethtown, Harrisburg, Carlisle, Hershey, Mechanicsburg, New Cumberland, Lancaster, and greater Harrisburg; Adams County, York County, Cumberland County, Perry County, Dauphin County, Lancaster County, PA; throughout Maryland and New York.