You just got a letter that says the manufacturer denies fault, but your lawyer says the case may involve strict product liability. That means a company that makes, sells, or distributes a product can be held legally responsible when the product is unreasonably dangerous and causes injury, even if no one meant to cause harm and even if proving ordinary negligence would be hard. The focus is usually on the product itself: Was there a design defect, a manufacturing defect, or a failure to give proper warnings or instructions?

In practice, that matters because injured people often do not know what happened inside a factory or along the supply chain. If a ladder collapses under normal use, or a vehicle part fails on black ice where a driver already has enough to deal with, the claim may turn on whether the product was defective when it reached the user. A strict liability case still requires proof of injury, causation, and defect, but not proof that the company was careless in the usual sense.

In Connecticut, product cases are generally brought under the Connecticut Product Liability Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 52-572m to 52-572q. That law pulls several product-based claims into one framework. Connecticut also does not cap non-economic damages in personal injury cases, so damages for pain, suffering, and lasting limitations may remain a significant part of a product injury claim.