All product liability claims are unique. But at the same time, they will also all contain the same basic components and premises. What is needed to make one product liability claim is needed to make the next.
There are four elements needed in a product liability case:
You should keep the defective product and any packaging that came with it, including instructions. The product maker will probably tell you to send it back to them, so they can inspect or replace it. You are under no obligation to send it back. As the owner of the product, it is yours to keep, even if you are accusing the product of being dangerous.
Your product liability attorney should be the one who makes the decision to send back the product or not. They will want to inspect it for themselves and possibly show it to an expert, like a product engineer, who can detail all of its flaws and how those contributed to your accident. After your lawyer is satisfied that they have as much information and evidence as they can get from the product, then they might say it is fine to send it to the product maker.
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