need written language for response

[nelsons]

I am a CA business that sells inflatable bounce houses, slide, obstacle courses, etc. I buy them from a US company that manufactures them in China. I sell directly to people in the rental business. I also have a few distributors that sell my products. Once such product, a slide, was sold by one of my distirbutors to a rental company back in Mar 2005. In August 2007 a person using it caught their foot in a crevace on the unit and claims they were injured. They sued the company that owns the slide who in turn named me as a Third Party as the manufacturer. I do not manufacture and own no interest in the manufacturer. I need to respond to the Third Party Summons and need the language to do it properly. I also suspect the unit was not operated in accordance with either the operating manual or ASTM or CFC (governing agencie). An inspection prior to use or detailed instructions to the user would have prevented the incident.

Can you help with the language for a proper response? Thanks,

 

[dee_dub]

This is why people hire lawyers. If you're not comfortable putting what you just said into a response yourself, you shouldn't be comfortable taking the opinion of anonymous strangers on drafting the response either.

 

[presutin]

Dee is correct. Hire an attorney to help you and to prevent you from leaving out any important terms and language that may comeback to haunt you as the lawsuit progresses.