Injured by a Defective Machine At Work Minnesota Attorneys
If you have been injured in a machine or equipment accident while working in Minnesota, you are entitled to workers compensation benefits. This is the same as any other injury on the job. You are entitled to your MN workers compensation benefits regardless of how or where the accident happened or who was at fault. However, you may also be able to sue the machine manufacturer. Our defective machine and equipment lawyers handle these cases.
The injury can occur in a factory or at a construction site. You could be injured by the equipment or machine directly, e.g. it cuts or crushes you, or indirectly like electrocution.
WORKERS COMPENSATION AFTER MACHINE OR EQUIPMENT ACCIDENT IN MN AND OTHER BENEFITS
Workers compensation benefits include most of your lost wages, medical bills, and a number of other benefits. For example, a direct payment to you if you have suffered a permanent injury.
However, you may also be entitled to compensation from the manufacturer of the defective equipment or machine. Our top MN attorneys represent people injured on the job because of bad equipment or a machine. We have been handling these cases for 25 years. Suing the maker of the bad equipment or defective machine is what our lawyers focus on in these injury cases.
Our defective product injury lawyers handle many cases where our client receives both workers comp and also sues a third party. For example, if an equipment manufacturer was at fault. Workers Compensation benefits are limited. Therefore, to be fully compensated, you need to pursue the other insurance as well.
In addition, the equipment or machine manufacturer may be required to repay the workers compensation insurer for the accident. That will help reduce your employer’s workers comp rates. If you have been injured when you were working on a machine or using equipment, our top MN lawyers will explain these issues to you and make sure your rights are protected.
Work Machine Injury Lawyer – focus is to get you fair and complete compensation for your injuries.
If you have been injured because of a defective machine or defective equipment while you were at work or on the job, call our lawyers as soon as possible. We will investigate your case and advise you of your rights. We are personal injury lawyers handling defective product cases throughout Minnesota. A lawyer will provide you with a free initial consultation regarding your machine injury. Further, we only ever charge based on a percentage of the compensation you receive.
DEFECTIVE PRODUCT LIABILITY IN MINNESOTA
Minnesota has strict product liability laws that hold manufacturers and sellers responsible when their defective product injures someone. This includes defective equipment or defective machine injures. The manufacturer is responsible even if the injured person is on the job and gets workers compensation benefits. This makes sense for several reasons. Two of the primary reasons are:
1) The company that made the machine is in the best position to make sure they have designed and manufactured the equipment safely. Knowing that they will have to pay for the damages if they injure people is a good incentive. They will want to make sure they don’t make defective products or defective equipment in the future; and
2) the manufacturer is in a better position to pay for the medical bills and other costs for the person injured by their defective machine or defective equipment. It is the business they are in, and they can spread the cost over the many sales that they make. That is better than the unlucky injured person or their employer having to pay the whole cost themselves.
The most important thing you can do to help our lawyers pursue your defective product claim is to SAVE EVERYTHING and take lots of pictures. Make sure your employer keeps the equipment or machine that injured you in exactly the condition it was in at the time of your injury. DON’T let anyone throw anything away, not even your clothing. If possible, don’t even move anything. The defective product attorney will need all the equipment parts even if they are partially destroyed.
EXPERIENCED INJURY LAWYERS
Please call us and speak with an attorney right away for a free consultation if you are injured because of a defective product or equipment while you were working on the job. Pam Rochlin and David Rochlin are Minnesota personal injury lawyers with more than 25 years’ experience. We have successfully handled hundreds of accident injury cases. We hold whoever made the machine or equipment responsible. A lawyer experienced with work equipment injury cases will discuss your case with you and explain your rights to sue for fair compensation.
We can meet with you at our office or your home. Our top defective product attorneys have offices in Minneapolis MN, St. Louis Park, Woodbury, and Edina. Our lawyers also frequently meet with people injured at work and discuss their potential defective machine lawsuit at their homes in St. Paul MN, Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie, and Maple Grove. Also, Rogers, Brooklyn Park, Bloomington, Richfield, Apple Valley, Roseville, Maplewood, and other surrounding cities in Minnesota. There is no obligation on your part, and we never charge anything unless you are compensated.