Product Liability Lawyers Serving New York City and the New York Metro Area

When a defective product causes a catastrophic injury or kills someone, the company that made it rarely volunteers to accept responsibility. Product liability law gives victims the legal mechanism to force that accountability, but these cases are technically demanding, expensive to litigate, and heavily contested by manufacturers with large legal teams.

McCartney Stucky's New York office is based in Rye, NY and represents product liability victims throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Long Island, and Westchester County. Our attorneys are admitted in New York state and federal courts, including New York Supreme Court and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Our practice is built entirely around complex catastrophic injury and product liability litigation, and every case we accept gets the full trial team, including our founding partners, from the first call through verdict.

Product liability claims generally fall into three categories: defective design, manufacturing defects, and failure to warn. We handle all three, with particular depth in automotive crashworthiness failures, commercial truck defects, and industrial and consumer product cases. If a product caused your injury and a manufacturer is responsible, we will fully investigate the case, tell you what it requires, and whether we're the right firm to take it.

We Don't Just Argue Defect. We Prove It.

Winning a product liability case in New York requires more than legal argument. It requires the ability to demonstrate, technically and forensically, exactly how a product failed and why that failure caused the harm. Our attorneys work with nationally recognized safety engineers, accident reconstruction specialists, and forensic experts who understand the manufacturing standards manufacturers are held to, and where they fell short.

We prepare every case as if it will go to trial. That preparation creates negotiating leverage that generic personal injury firms can't replicate, and it has produced results, including seven- and eight-figure verdicts and settlements, against some of the largest manufacturers in the world. Physical evidence in product liability cases, such as the defective vehicle, the failed component, or the product itself, can be altered, repaired, or destroyed quickly. We move fast to preserve it, and our in-house evidence storage facility, built with a vehicle lift, gives us the capacity to hold what most firms can't.

Results Against Some of the Largest Manufacturers in the World

$4.3 Million — Verdict Against BMW. A defective airbag caused the plaintiff to lose an eye. After a two-week trial in Ulster County, the jury found BMW's airbag system defective and awarded $4.3 million in damages.

$22.3 Million — Verdict Against Honda. A rollover case that produced a record product liability verdict in Columbia County.

These outcomes weren't negotiated cheaply and closed quietly. They were won through trial preparation, technical knowledge, and the willingness to stand in front of a jury against some of the world's largest automakers. We take on tough cases that other firms might not be willing to take on.

Product Liability Cases We Handle in New York City

From our Rye, NY office, we handle the following categories of product liability claims for clients throughout the New York Metro area.

Defective Heavy Trucks

Post-collision fires, underride crashes, and cab structural failures caused by manufacturer design defects, not just driver error. These are claims against the truck manufacturer, and we handle them from investigation through verdict.

Automotive Defects

Airbag failures, seatbelt defects, roof crush in rollovers, and other crashworthiness failures that turn survivable accidents into catastrophic ones. We pursue the automaker, not just the driver.

Consumer Product Defects

Dangerous household appliances, children's products, and electrical devices that injure or kill consumers under normal use. We challenge manufacturers, distributors, and retailers for allowing unsafe goods into the marketplace.

Workplace Machinery Defects

Industrial machines without proper guards, emergency stops, or fail-safe controls that cause amputations, crush injuries, and fatalities. We work with safety engineers to prove the design flaw and hold the manufacturer accountable.

Serving Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Long Island

Our New York office handles product liability cases arising anywhere in the five boroughs and beyond. Manhattan cases fall under New York Supreme Court, New York County and the Southern District of New York. Brooklyn cases proceed through Kings County Supreme Court and the Eastern District of New York. Queens, served by Queens County courts and the Eastern District, sees a steady volume of defective truck and automotive claims tied to commercial traffic on the Van Wyck Expressway and Grand Central Parkway. The Bronx falls under Bronx County Supreme Court. Long Island clients, in Nassau and Suffolk counties, fall under the Eastern District of New York, where the area's dense highway network produces a consistent volume of automotive and trucking defect cases.