Our client was an air-conditioning repairman. He purchased a manual pump sprayer to spray sodium hydroxide onto air-conditioning coils for cleaning. While spraying the coils, the hose dislodged and caused a pressurized steams of chemicals to shoot into our client’s eye. Our client sustained permanent injury to his eye.
MRD attorneys filed defective products action against major pump sprayer manufacturing company due to eye injury.
MRD took this extremely difficult products liability case to trial. Challenges included that client was not wearing googles, only safety glasses, at the time of the injury; and warning labels expressly excluded the use of sodium hydroxide in the sprayers.
MRD searched for suitable products liability experts to determine whether the hose design was defective and warnings experts to examine the appropriateness of warning labels.
MRD found qualified experts to reliably opine that the hose connection design was defective, which defect caused the hose to dislodge. MRD also found qualified warnings expert to opine that method of placing warnings on the plastic sprayer were also defective and unreadable.
MRD attorneys filed the defective products lawsuit against the manufacturing company in the 14th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Calcasieu.
MRD attorneys refused the manufacturer’s pre-trial settlement offers.
During the second day of a scheduled week-long jury trial, MRD reached an amicable settlement agreement on behalf of our client for $750,000.