Syracuse Product Liability Lawyers

If a defective product injured you or someone in your family anywhere in New York, a New York product liability lawyer can explain who is legally responsible and what has to be proven. These are not ordinary accident claims. The defendant is usually a corporation with engineers, in-house counsel, and a defense firm on retainer, the proof is technical, and the most important piece of evidence is the product itself, which is often thrown away in the first week. New York law reaches the manufacturer, and in most situations the distributor and the retailer as well.

Porter Law Group represents people hurt by dangerous products across New York State, from Syracuse and Central New York to Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, and New York City. We preserve and inspect the product, retain the engineering and medical experts the case needs, obtain the recall and complaint history, and litigate when the manufacturer’s carrier will not pay what the injury is worth. Consultations are free, and we take product liability cases on a contingency fee basis, so there is no fee unless we win.

Why Choose Porter Law Group for a New York Product Liability Claim

Product cases are won or lost on decisions made long before a lawsuit is filed. Whether the product was preserved and how, which experts were retained and when, whether the recall and complaint history was pulled, and whether every company in the chain of distribution was identified before the deadline all shape what the claim becomes. Manufacturers defend these cases hard, because a finding against a product line costs them far more than the claim in front of them.

When a Product Liability Case Needs a Lawyer

Not every product that breaks creates a claim. You should speak with an attorney when any of the following apply:

• The injury required surgery, a hospital stay, ongoing treatment, or left a permanent limitation.
• The product was being used normally, or in a way its maker could have expected, when it failed.
• A guard, shut-off, alarm, restraint, or warning label was missing, disabled, unreadable, or never fitted.
• The product has been recalled, or you have found other people reporting the same failure.
• A manufacturer, retailer, insurer, or repair company has asked you to return, ship back, or exchange the product.
• The injury happened at work, where a workers compensation claim and a claim against the equipment maker can run at the same time.

Statewide Reach With a Syracuse Base

Porter Law Group is headquartered in Syracuse and maintains six offices across New York State. Product cases are filed in the Supreme Court of the county where the injury happened or where a defendant does business, and much of the real work is local. Securing a machine in storage, arranging an inspection that defense engineers attend, tracking down the distributor that delivered a piece of equipment, and finding the treating specialists who can explain what the failure did to the body all happen on the ground. Being able to reach a client, a scene, or a machine on short notice matters more here than in most cases.

How We Handle Product Liability Cases

The first step is almost always custody of the product. We send preservation demands to everyone who might have it, arrange secure storage, and document its condition before anyone touches it. From there we identify each company in the chain of distribution, request the recall history, complaint files, design records, and testing data, and bring in engineers and treating physicians. You work directly with the attorney handling your case. Read our client testimonials, review our case results, and meet the team on the Attorneys and Staff page.

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How New York Product Liability Law Works

New York gives an injured person more than one way to hold a product’s maker and its sellers responsible, and serious cases are usually brought on several theories at once because each requires different proof and fails for different reasons. The three core defect theories are design defect, manufacturing defect, and failure to warn. Alongside them sit ordinary negligence and breach of warranty, which carry their own standards and advantages.

Strict Liability for Defective Products

New York recognizes strict products liability through its court decisions rather than through a products liability statute. A company that puts a defective product into the stream of commerce is responsible for the injuries that defect causes even if it was careful and followed industry custom. The focus is on the condition of the product, not the conduct of the business that made it.

To succeed, an injured person generally has to show that the product was defective, that the defect existed when the product left the defendant’s control, and that the defect was a substantial factor in causing the injury. You do not need to have bought the product or to have any contract with the seller. Bystanders, borrowers, houseguests, employees using an employer’s equipment, and family members of the purchaser can all bring claims. That reach is deliberate, because the companies that design and build products are the ones positioned to make them safe.

Design Defect Claims

A design defect means the product was built exactly as intended and the intention itself was unsafe, so every unit off that line carries the same hazard. New York asks whether the product as designed was not reasonably safe. Courts frame that as a balancing question, asking whether a reasonable person who knew of the product’s potential for causing injury would conclude that its utility did not outweigh the risk built into it.

The factors weighed include how useful the product is, how likely and how severe the injuries it can cause are, whether a safer design was available and technically feasible, what that version would have cost and whether it would have destroyed the product’s usefulness, and how much an ordinary user could do to avoid the danger. In practice a design case almost always requires an engineer who can describe a specific alternative design that was feasible when the product was made and would have prevented this injury.

Manufacturing Defect Claims

A manufacturing defect is a flaw in one unit or one batch. The design was sound, but this item came off the line different from the drawings and different from the units around it. A weld that was never completed, a mis-molded part, contamination, a missing fastener, a substituted material, or a component installed backward all fall into this category. Here the product itself is usually the strongest proof available, which is exactly why losing it is so damaging.

New York also allows a defect to be established circumstantially. Where a product fails during ordinary use in a way that products of that kind do not fail, and other likely causes not attributable to the manufacturer can be excluded, an injured person may be able to prove a defect without pinpointing the precise flaw. That route matters when a fire or explosion consumed the evidence, and it depends almost entirely on what was documented at the scene.

Failure to Warn Claims

A product can be flawlessly designed and flawlessly built and still be legally defective if it reached the consumer without adequate warnings or instructions. A manufacturer has a duty to warn about dangers it knew of or should have known of that arise from the intended use of the product and from uses it could reasonably foresee, including misuse common enough to be predictable.

An adequate warning has to do more than exist. It must identify the specific hazard, convey how serious the harm can be, explain how to avoid it, and appear where a user will actually encounter it. A caution buried deep in a manual, molded into plastic in a color that fades, or provided only in English for a product marketed more broadly may not be adequate. New York also recognizes a continuing duty to warn, so a company that learns of a hazard after the sale can be responsible for failing to alert owners of products already in use. There is generally no duty to warn about a danger that is open and obvious to an ordinary user.

Negligence and Breach of Warranty

A negligence claim asks a different question than strict liability. Not whether the product was defective, but whether the company was careless in designing, manufacturing, inspecting, testing, labeling, or recalling it. In design cases the two theories overlap heavily in New York, but negligence keeps its value where the evidence shows a company ignored a pattern of complaints, cut testing short, or kept shipping a product it knew was failing in the field.

Breach of warranty comes from sales law rather than tort. An express warranty under UCC 2-313 arises from what the seller actually stated, described, or demonstrated about the goods. The implied warranty of merchantability under UCC 2-314 requires that goods sold by a merchant dealing in that kind of product be fit for the ordinary purposes such goods are used for. The implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose under UCC 2-315 applies where the seller knew the buyer’s specific purpose and the buyer relied on the seller’s judgment.

Warranty theories matter for two practical reasons. UCC 2-318 extends a seller’s warranty to any natural person it is reasonable to expect will use, consume, or be affected by the goods and who is injured, and a seller may not exclude or limit that protection. And the merchantability standard asks whether the product was fit for its ordinary purpose, a different question from the design defect balancing test, so a warranty claim can sometimes survive where a design claim struggles.

Who Can Be Held Responsible for a Defective Product

New York does not limit liability to the company whose name is printed on the box. Everyone in the commercial chain that put the product in front of the consumer can be a defendant, which becomes decisive when the manufacturer is insolvent, dissolved, or beyond the reach of a New York court.

The Chain of Distribution

Potential defendants include the manufacturer of the finished product, the maker of a defective component part, the company that assembled or installed it, the importer, the wholesaler and distributor, and the retailer that sold it. Businesses that lease or rent equipment can be liable as well, as can a company that sold a product under its own brand name even though another firm built it.

Retailers and distributors generally hold indemnity rights against the manufacturer, but their presence in a case is not a technicality. A domestic seller is subject to New York jurisdiction, usually carries insurance, and can be compelled to identify the actual maker of a product whose labeling reveals nothing useful. Where an item was imported through several intermediaries or sold through an online marketplace, that chain is often the only realistic path to the company that built it.

When the Product Injured Someone at Work

Workers hurt by machinery, tools, ladders, or chemicals on the job have a second route many never hear about. Workers compensation is generally the exclusive remedy against an employer, but it does not bar a claim against the company that designed, built, sold, installed, or serviced the equipment. A workers compensation claim and a product liability claim against the manufacturer can proceed at the same time, and the compensation carrier will assert a lien against any third party recovery that has to be negotiated. On construction sites these claims often sit alongside New York Labor Law theories against owners and general contractors, which our construction injury work covers.

The Defective Products Behind Most New York Claims

Certain categories generate claims year after year. We maintain dedicated pages for the products we see most often, each covering that category’s failure patterns, the evidence that decides those cases, and how those manufacturers defend themselves.

Vehicles, Auto Parts, and Electric Vehicles

Vehicle cases divide into two kinds. A defect can cause the crash, through a brake, steering, or suspension failure, a tire tread separation, unintended acceleration, or a fault in a driver assistance system. Or the vehicle can fail to protect occupants in a crash that should have been survivable, through an airbag that did not deploy or deployed with too much force, a seatbelt that released, a roof that crushed, or a fuel system that fed a fire. Our page on defective car and auto part claims covers both, and our page on electric vehicle injuries addresses battery fires, thermal runaway, charging equipment failures, and the same hazards in scooters, e-bikes, and golf carts. Where another driver’s conduct is also at issue, our car accident practice covers the overlap.

Medical Devices and Prescription Drugs

Device and drug claims carry an extra layer of federal regulation that shapes what can be brought. Implants that fracture, corrode, shed metal debris, or migrate, surgical mesh, staplers and instruments that fail during a procedure, monitors that give false readings, and breathing machines with degrading components all generate claims. Our page on defective medical device claims explains how these cases are worked up, and our article on medical device malfunctions and the legal claims that follow covers the basics.

Prescription medications are handled separately, because those cases turn on what the maker told regulators and prescribing physicians rather than on a mechanical failure, and on a doctrine that treats the prescriber as the intended recipient of the warning. Our defective prescription drug practice covers them in full. We also maintain pages on weight loss drug injury claims involving GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic, and Depo-Provera lawsuits. Federal law limits certain device and generic drug claims depending on the approval pathway a product took, a question worth resolving at the outset rather than after a deadline has run.

Machinery, Equipment, and Power Tools

Industrial and commercial equipment cases usually involve a guard that was never fitted or that the design made easy to defeat, an interlock or emergency stop that failed, a control that could be triggered accidentally, an inadequate provision for locking out power during service, or a machine that restarted without warning during maintenance. Amputations, crush injuries, and degloving injuries are the typical result. Our page on defective equipment and machinery injuries covers presses, saws, conveyors, forklifts, lifts, and hand and power tools.

Household Products, Appliances, and Children’s Items

Ordinary household goods cause a steady stream of serious injuries: appliances and space heaters that ignite, pressure cookers that open while pressurized, lithium battery packs that overheat, furniture and televisions that tip onto small children, cleaning chemicals sold without adequate hazard labeling, and cribs, strollers, car seats, infant sleepers, and toys with entrapment, strangulation, choking, or toxic material hazards. Our page on defective household product claims covers this category, and fires and inhalation injuries from these failures frequently become burn injury cases as well.

Vapes, Batteries, and Newer Consumer Risks

Some product categories reached the market faster than the safety science followed them. Our page on vape and e-cigarette injuries covers battery explosions along with lung injury claims. Our page on vaccine injuries addresses that separate compensation route, which carries its own filing rules and deadlines. We also watch autonomous driving systems, internet-connected home devices with fire or security exposure, and consumer goods containing substances later identified as harmful, which overlaps with our toxic exposure and toxic tort practice and with talc and ovarian cancer claims.

Injuries Caused by Defective Products

The injury pattern follows the product. A failure that produces a scrape in one context is catastrophic in another, and the severity usually reflects how much energy the product stores or releases.

• Severe burns from appliances, batteries, e-cigarettes, fuel systems, and industrial equipment.
• Amputations, crush injuries, and degloving from machinery, power tools, and equipment.
• Traumatic brain injuries from failed helmets, restraints, and protective gear or from a vehicle defect.
• Spinal cord damage and paralysis from seat, restraint, and roof structure failures.
• Organ damage, internal bleeding, and infection from implants and surgical devices.
• Choking, entrapment, strangulation, and suffocation involving children’s products.
• Chemical burns, poisoning, and respiratory damage from products sold without adequate warnings.
• Eye injuries and vision loss from failed protective equipment and pressurized products.
• Electrocution from faulty wiring, insulation, chargers, and cords.

The most severe of these become catastrophic injury claims, and where a product failure causes a death the family has a separate wrongful death claim with its own rules.

Preserving the Product and the Rest of the Evidence

Why the Product Itself Is the Case

In most product cases the injured person, not the manufacturer, is holding the most important exhibit, and it is at risk from the moment the injury happens. It gets thrown out during a hospital stay, returned to the store for a refund, mailed back for a replacement, repaired by a landlord or employer, or collected by an adjuster who promises to look into it. Once it is gone, no expert can examine it and the defense will argue the defect never existed.

New York courts treat the destruction or loss of key evidence seriously and can sanction whichever side allowed it to happen, up to an instruction that the jury may assume the missing item would have been unfavorable to that party. That rule cuts both ways. Keep the product exactly as it is, including broken pieces, packaging, labels, the manual, and any battery or charger, and do not let anyone take it without a written agreement and your attorney involved.

What Else to Keep

Bring whatever you have to your consultation, even if it is incomplete.

The product and the purchase

• The product itself, along with every component, fragment, accessory, and the packaging.
• Model and serial numbers, lot or batch codes, and date stamps, photographed before they wear away.
• Receipts, order confirmations, warranty cards, registration records, and the manual.

The event itself

• Photographs and video of the product, the scene, and the injury before anything is cleaned up.
• Names and contact details for everyone who saw the failure or used the same product alongside you.
• Any incident report from an employer, store, hospital, landlord, or fire department, plus any fire investigation report.

Medical and financial records

• Emergency, hospital, surgical, and follow-up records, including any implant or device removed and retained by the hospital.
• Every bill, explanation of benefits, and prescription receipt. See our guide on obtaining medical records in New York.
• Proof of lost wages, missed work, travel to appointments, and a dated journal of pain, sleep, and activity limits.

What to Do After a Defective Product Injury in New York

Get Medical Care and Follow the Plan

Go to an emergency department or see a physician the same day, and say plainly that a product caused the injury so it appears in the record from the beginning. Burns, chemical exposures, battery injuries, and anything involving an implant deserve urgent evaluation even when the visible injury looks manageable. Then follow the treatment plan and keep every appointment. Gaps in treatment are the argument insurers use most often to discount an injury.

Report the Failure to the Right Agency

Consumer product failures are reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, vehicle and tire defects to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and drug and medical device problems to the Food and Drug Administration through its adverse event reporting program. Reporting creates an independent record, feeds the databases where a pattern becomes visible, and can contribute to a recall that protects the next person.

Two cautions come with that. Filing an agency report does not start, preserve, or extend any legal claim and is never a substitute for one. And a product does not have to be recalled to be defective. Many defects are never recalled at all, and a manufacturer’s offer to repair or replace a recalled item does nothing to resolve an injury claim.

Be Careful What You Sign

A manufacturer or its insurer may contact you quickly, sometimes offering a refund, a replacement unit, a gift card, or a modest payment. Those offers frequently arrive attached to a release that ends any injury claim, and almost always with a request that you ship the product back. Do not send the product anywhere, do not sign a release, and do not give a recorded statement before speaking with an attorney. Stay off social media about the failure and your recovery as well, because defense counsel review public profiles as a matter of routine.

Defenses Manufacturers Raise in New York Product Cases

Substantial Modification and Misuse

The most common defense is that the product was safe when sold and that something happened to it afterward. A manufacturer is generally not responsible where a purchaser or user substantially modified the product after it left the manufacturer’s control and that modification is what made it dangerous. Removing a guard, bypassing an interlock, or rewiring a machine are the usual examples.

The defense has real limits. It does not apply where the product was already defective when sold, and it does not shelter a manufacturer whose design made a safety feature trivial to defeat or effectively invited its removal so the equipment could keep producing. A related argument is that a safety device was offered as an option and a knowledgeable commercial buyer declined it, which can shift responsibility in some circumstances but not where the product is unreasonably dangerous without it. Misuse works as a defense only where the use was genuinely unforeseeable, since manufacturers are expected to anticipate how people actually use their products rather than the ideal described in the manual.

Comparative Fault

New York applies pure comparative fault under CPLR 1411. Your share of responsibility reduces a recovery in proportion rather than eliminating it. New York narrowed this rule in 2026 for motor vehicle cases, where a claimant whose share of fault is greater than the combined fault of everyone sued can now be barred entirely. Whether that narrower rule reaches a particular claim involving a vehicle is worth asking about early. Manufacturers argue that a user skipped an instruction, neglected maintenance, or kept using something they knew was broken. Those arguments deserve serious preparation and are routinely overstated, particularly where the instruction relied on was itself inadequate. Our article on New York’s comparative negligence law explains how the reduction is applied.

Damages in a New York Product Liability Case

What a claim is worth depends on the injury, the proof, and the conduct behind the product, and no lawyer can responsibly quote a figure before reviewing the medical evidence. What can be described is which categories of loss New York allows.

Economic Damages

Economic damages are the documented financial consequences of the injury: emergency and hospital care, surgery, revision or removal of an implant, rehabilitation, medication, assistive equipment, home modifications, and attendant care, along with treatment that has not happened yet but is medically expected. They also cover lost wages, reduced hours, and diminished earning capacity where an injury permanently limits what a person can do for a living.

Non-Economic Damages

Non-economic damages compensate the human consequences: physical pain, permanent scarring and disfigurement, chronic nerve pain, loss of a limb or a sense, anxiety, depression, sleep disruption, and the activities, work, and relationships the injury took away. A spouse may also have a derivative claim for loss of services and companionship. Because these losses are proven through testimony, photographs, and treatment records rather than invoices, the dated journal described above does more work than it appears to.

Wrongful Death and Punitive Damages

Where a defective product causes a death, the estate brings a wrongful death claim for the losses the family suffered, including funeral expenses and the financial support, services, and parental guidance the person would have provided, along with a separate survival claim for the conscious pain endured before death. Our wrongful death practice covers how those claims are structured and who may bring them.

Punitive damages are available in New York only where a defendant’s conduct was so reckless or morally culpable that it deserves punishment rather than compensation. In product cases the argument usually rests on internal documents showing a company identified a hazard, calculated what fixing it would cost, and shipped anyway, or concealed complaints from regulators. They are the exception rather than the expectation, and no claim should be valued on the assumption they will be awarded.

How Long You Have to File a Product Liability Claim

In New York, the statute of limitations for a personal injury action, including a claim for injury caused by a defective product, is three years from the date of injury under CPLR 214. Miss that deadline and the claim is barred no matter how strong the evidence is. Several rules change the arithmetic, and most shorten the effective window rather than lengthen it.

• Latent harm from exposure to a substance. Under CPLR 214-c, where personal injury is caused by the latent effects of exposure to a substance, the three year period runs from when the injury was discovered or reasonably should have been discovered, whichever comes first. That covers drug, chemical, and toxic material cases, but not a mechanical failure that injured someone the day it broke. A narrow further provision can open a short additional window where the cause of a latent injury could not reasonably have been identified earlier.
• Wrongful death. Under EPTL 5-4.1, the estate’s wrongful death action generally must be commenced within two years of the death. It is shorter than the personal injury deadline and it is measured from a different date.
• Injured children. CPLR 208 tolls the limitations period during infancy, so a child’s own claim generally remains available until three years after their eighteenth birthday. A parent’s separate claim for the child’s medical expenses is not tolled the same way.
• Government defendants. Where a public entity is involved, for example equipment owned by a municipality, a school district, or a transit authority, a notice of claim generally must be served within 90 days of the incident under General Municipal Law 50-e, with a shortened period to sue afterward.
• Warranty claims. UCC 2-725 sets four years for an action on a contract for sale, and it runs from tender of delivery rather than from the date of injury, so a warranty theory can expire before anyone is ever hurt. Which period governs depends on how the claim is framed.
• Practical deadlines. Products get discarded, surveillance video is overwritten within weeks, employers repair or scrap machines, and companies purge records on a retention schedule. The legal deadline is rarely the one that actually decides a case.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a New York product liability lawyer cost?

Porter Law Group handles product liability cases on a contingency fee basis. You pay nothing upfront and nothing unless we win your case, and the initial consultation is always free. Having a lawyer review what happened and what the product needs before you decide anything costs you nothing.

Do I have to keep the product that injured me?

Yes, and it is one of the most important things you can do. The product is usually the strongest evidence that a defect existed and caused the injury, and an expert cannot examine something that has been discarded, repaired, or shipped back to the company. Keep every piece of it, including fragments, packaging, labels, the manual, and any battery or charger, and do not clean or repair it. If a manufacturer, retailer, insurer, or employer asks you to hand it over, speak with an attorney first so an inspection can be arranged on terms that protect the evidence.

Do I have to prove exactly what went wrong inside the product?

Not always. In many cases an engineer identifies the specific defect, but New York also allows a defect to be proven circumstantially. Where a product fails during ordinary use in a way that products of that kind do not fail, and other likely causes that are not the manufacturer’s responsibility can be ruled out, that can be enough. This matters most in fire and explosion cases where the evidence destroyed itself.

The product was never recalled. Does that mean it was not defective?

No. Most defective products are never recalled. A recall reflects a regulatory or business decision, not a legal finding about your unit, and injury claims proceed all the time on products that were never recalled. The reverse is also true. A recall is helpful evidence but does not by itself prove your item was flawed or caused your injury, and accepting a recall repair, refund, or replacement does not resolve an injury claim.

I did not buy the product. Can I still bring a claim?

Usually yes. New York does not require a contract with the seller or any purchase at all. Bystanders, borrowers, houseguests, employees using an employer’s equipment, family members of the purchaser, and people using a product bought secondhand can all bring strict liability claims. Warranty law reaches similarly far. UCC 2-318 extends a seller’s warranty to any natural person it is reasonable to expect will use, consume, or be affected by the goods and who is injured, and a seller cannot contract out of it.

How long do I have to file a product liability claim in New York?

Generally three years from the date of the injury under CPLR 214. Several rules change that. Where the harm comes from the latent effects of exposure to a substance, CPLR 214-c runs the three years from when the injury was discovered or reasonably should have been discovered. A wrongful death action is generally two years from the death under EPTL 5-4.1. CPLR 208 tolls the period while an injured person is a child. Claims involving a public entity usually require a notice of claim within 90 days under General Municipal Law 50-e. Because the deadline depends on the facts, and evidence disappears long before any of these dates, have the timeline reviewed early.

What if I was partly at fault for how I used the product?

Usually you can still recover. New York follows pure comparative fault under CPLR 1411, so a share of responsibility assigned to you reduces the recovery in proportion rather than barring the claim. A 2026 change narrowed this rule for motor vehicle cases, so if a vehicle was involved it is worth asking early whether the narrower rule applies. Manufacturers routinely argue that a user ignored an instruction or skipped maintenance. Those arguments are often weaker than they appear, particularly where the instruction was inadequate or the design made the unsafe step the natural one.

The manufacturer is overseas or out of business. Is there anyone left to sue?

Often, yes. New York liability runs through the whole chain of distribution, so the importer, the distributor, the wholesaler, the retailer, an equipment lessor, and a company that sold the item under its own brand name can all be defendants. Those businesses are typically subject to New York jurisdiction and insured, and can be required to identify the actual manufacturer. Where a component part failed, the component maker may be a separate and solvent defendant.

Where We Serve Product Liability Clients in New York

Porter Law Group is based in Syracuse and represents injured consumers and workers throughout Onondaga County, including Liverpool, Cicero, DeWitt, Camillus, Manlius, North Syracuse, Baldwinsville, Fayetteville, Skaneateles, Marcellus, Solvay, Salina, and Clay, along with the city neighborhoods of Eastwood, Westvale, Strathmore, Tipperary Hill, and University Hill. We also work with clients across Central New York in Auburn, Cortland, Oswego, Ithaca, Utica, and Rome.

We maintain offices throughout New York State including Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Saratoga Springs, and New York City, and we take product liability cases statewide. See our local pages for Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, New York City. Browse all of our New York offices, or read the latest updates on the Porter Law Group blog.

Contact a New York Product Liability Lawyer

If a dangerous product injured you or someone in your family anywhere in New York, the sooner someone takes control of the evidence, the better your position will be. The product can be secured, the scene photographed, the recall and complaint history pulled, and the retailer pressed to identify the manufacturer while the answers are still available. Manufacturers begin working these cases the day they hear about them, and there is no reason to start later than they do.

Our Syracuse office is at 100 Madison Street, Suite 1500, Syracuse, NY 13202. If you cannot come to us, we will come to you at your home or a hospital room. We also meet clients at our Buffalo, Rochester, Albany, Saratoga Springs, and New York City offices.

Call 833-PORTER9 or email info@porterlawteam.com for a free, no-obligation consultation. We handle product liability cases on a contingency fee basis, so you pay nothing unless we win.

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