● Manufacturers of parts● Assembling manufacturers● The wholesaler● The retail store owner
1. Design defects:● These defects prevail long before the product is manufactured. Maybe the product is functioning well, they are subjected to cause damage at any given point while in use.● The plaintiff is burdened to prove that the defect is the reason for their damage, this rule is prevalent in 47 states. Laws in California, Hawaii, and Alaska are however different.2. Manufacturing defects● It occurs during the making of the product.● Not all the products of the same lot are defective, maybe a few are defective.3. Defects in marketing● When the marketing agents fail to tell the customers about the underlying danger that the product might have.