Terry E. LumsdenAttorney At Law

Welcome To The Law Firm Of Terry E. Lumsden!

Here at the Law Offices of Terry E. Lumsden we strive to be the best accident lawyer in the Tacoma area!

If you are hurt and are looking for the best Accident Lawyer in the Tacoma area, look no further. Terry Lumsden has been practicing law effectively for more than 30 years! He knows what it takes to get results. If you have been injured psychologically or physically from any kind of wrong-doing or negligence of a person, government agency, single company, or any other sources feel free to contact us! We are your Accident Lawyer here in Tacoma.

When it comes to choosing an Accident Lawyer in Tacoma, it's important that you make the right choice. An Accident Lawyer must have the knowledge and skills that are needed in order to properly handle accident cases. Although Accident Lawyers are trained to practice in any field of law, usually they only handle cases which fall under specific laws called Tort Laws.

A client that suffers from a "tortious" injury may be entitled to receive damages which could be monetary compensation, from the responsible parts, or whoever is liable for the injuries. These injuries could also be reputational, emotional, or economic injuries as well as violations of property, privacy, and/or constitutional rights. The largest Tort Liability is usually negligence. If the injured individual can show that the parties involved in creating the injury had acted negligently, which means without using a reasonable amount of care to avoid injuring others, then the Tort Law would allow for compensation.

Wondering if your product liability claim is valid?

Do you have a prod. liability claim where a defective product has lead to harm? There are very strict guidelines that are given to MFG., distributors and even wholesalers in order to make sure that the companies that are bringing goods to the marketplace are very careful when they release their products. In result of the important public policy rules that are put into place in regards to protecting consumers from harmful products, a disclaimer does now take away responsibility of the producer.

A company producing products must be aware of and notify their consumers about the proper use of a product as well as the risk for danger that is associated with their product . For example, A hair dryer that has a warning about use around water, that warning is there because the producers know that their consumer will more than likely be using this product in the bathroom. Allot of MFG. will try to remove themselves from the liability of potential injuries from their products. They sometimes do this by putting a disclaimer somewhere on the products.

However the disclaimer cant and doesn't excuse the manufacturer of taking the responsibility to make sure that their products are reasonably safe. It also does not absolve the manufacturer of any kind of liability for the unforeseen risks associated with their product. For example, if there is a new drug that is released, the MFG. couldn't just issue a blanket warning saying something like "this product has side effects" and be excused from all responsibility for any and all of the side effects that may some day arise in result from the use of the drug. A proper disclaimer has to be explicit , clear , and reasonable. The consumer must generally be aware of these disclaimers, or, as Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc (32 N.J. 358) put it, the disclaimer will not be valid if "unfairly procured." If you have any kind of doubt as to whether or not you can make a product liability claim, the best thing you can do is to sit down with a lawyer and go over your options and find out whether the product disclaimer can/will negatively impact the rights that you have to damages based on your injuries that a defective product caused you.

Over 30 Years Of Experience!

Facebook YouTube