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In every state or province within Canada, time is money. Yet the value for any particular spans of time varies from region to region. Those variations become especially obvious during an analysis of the time constraints for filing defective product claims.
The nature of the variations
Some variations relate to the amount of time that someone that has suffered a personal injury has in which to file such a claim. In some places that specific time period does not equal a day more than 3 year. In other regions it has been extended to 2 or 3 years. There also exist a few places where the same time limit comes to a total of 4 or 5 years.
By the same token, there seems to be no agreement on the start date for the limited time period. In some regions that start date is the day that the accident victim got harmed by someone committing a negligent act. In other places that starting date is the day when the accident victim discovered the injury.
What you can do if you miss the deadline for filing a defective product claim
Check to see the name of the state or province in which the defendant resides. If the deadline has not passed in that state, you can file your claim in the state where the defendant lives. Hire an Injury Lawyer in Cambridge and check to see if the manufacturer knew about the defect and had tried to draw consumers’ attention away from that same defect.
Some tricks that manufacturers use, in order to lower the chances that consumers might file a claim against a defective product
Write a letter to those that purchased a specific product. Offer to replace the same product. This hints at existence of a defect. If consumer does not respond to the letter and then tries to file a defective product claim, the manufacturer could show that the consumer had been warned earlier, but had failed to heed that warning.
State in materials that came with a given item this fact: Any buyers of that same item had to respect a statute of response, if planning to sue for production of a defective good. A statute of response specifies clearly the start date for the time constraints that exist for filing a defective product claim.
According to a statute of response, the start date is the day that the problem item was sold to the unsatisfied purchaser. Obviously, a fair number of days could pass, following that sale, until the product’s owner realized that the newly-bought item had come with a defect. The manufacturer does not make the information about the statute of response easy to find.