{"id":171,"date":"2014-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/contributing-to-negligence-in-your-product-liability-case\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:10:05","slug":"contributing-to-negligence-in-your-product-liability-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/contributing-to-negligence-in-your-product-liability-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributing to Negligence in Your Product Liability Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/product-liability\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Product Liability<\/a> | October 10, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Illinois consumers have a reasonable expectation that the products they buy and the medicines they consume will not injure them when normally used. Throughout the years, Illinois courts have come to expect that farmers, manufacturers and others who introduce items for sale into the stream of commerce will exercise care to ensure that those products are reasonably safe for use under normal conditions.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens if a consumer is injured by a product as a result of not using it under normal conditions? For example, imagine a home destroyed in a fire caused a coffee pot with a built-in auto shutoff function. The homeowner admits to having used the pot twice per day despite the manufacturer\u2019s recommendation of using it only once per day. Most people would agree that using a coffee pot twice daily is not an unreasonably normal usage of that product.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/contributing-to-negligence-in-your-product-liability-case\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Contributing to Negligence in Your Product Liability Case\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product Liability | October 10, 2014 Illinois consumers have a reasonable expectation that the products they buy and the medicines they consume will not injure them when normally used. 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