Can I be compensated if a cleaning product damaged my lungs?

It would be advisable to speak with a personal injury attorney.

This area of law concerning a defective product is products liability.  Both the manufacturer of the product and the seller (store where you purchased the product) would be liable for your injury.

When you are released by the doctor upon completion of your medical treatment or upon the doctor declaring you to be permanent and stationary, which means that no further improvement is anticipated, obtain your medical bills, medical reports and documentation of any wage loss.  Compensation for the medical bills is straight reimbursement.  Compensation for wage loss is straight reimbursement.  The medical reports will document the nature and extent of your injury and will be used to determine compensation for pain and suffering.  Compensation for pain and suffering is an amount in addition to the medical bills.

Prior to filing a lawsuit against the manufacturer and seller of the product, contact their insurance carriers and file your personal injury claim consisting of the medical reports, medical bills, and documentation of wage loss.  If you are dissatisfied with settlement offers from the insurance companies, file your lawsuit for negligence and strict liability.

Negligence is based on the failure to exercise due care (that degree of care that a reasonable manufacturer would have exercised under the same or similar circumstances to prevent foreseeable harm).  In order to prove negligence, you will need to prove duty of care (discussed above), breach of duty (failure to prevent the emission of the fumes), actual cause, proximate cause, damages.  Actual cause means but for the fumes, would you have been injured?  If the answer is no, which appears to be the case, you have established actual cause.  Proximate cause means were there any unforeseeable intervening events which would relieve the defendant from liability?  If the answer is no, you have established proximate cause.  Damages refers to the amount of compensation you are seeking to recover for your injury.

Negligence is one cause of action (claim) in your lawsuit against the manufacturer and seller. The other separate cause of action (claim) to include in your lawsuit is strict liability.  Strict liability means the manufacturer and seller are liable whether or not they exercised due care.

If your personal injury claim is not settled with the insurance carriers for both the manufacturer and seller, you will need to file your lawsuit for negligence and strict liability prior to the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations or you will lose your rights forever in the matter.