Product Liability

This is FindLaw’s collection of Product Liability articles, part of the Litigation and Disputes section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Product liability laws are based on the the premise that companies generally have a duty to protect consumers from potential hazards. Courts have held that manufacturers generally have more insight and knowledge about their products, so it falls to them to assume financial responsibility for any injuries or damage they cause. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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Product Liability Articles

Fen-Phen California Warning: Silent Injury: Secret Disease made worse by California’s One Year Statute of Limitations that Starts Running When Injury is First Suspected

California's one-year statute of limitations in personal injury cases begin to run upon the date of the injury or when a person discovers an injury has occurred. Anyone with a valid, enforceable and collectible claim, who files one day after the one ...
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FEN-PHEN Litigation Across America

Several years ago, America was hit by one of the many weight loss crazes that seem to capture our attention on an ongoing basis. It was known as "fen-phen," a combination of two previously available weight loss drugs, fenfluramine and phentermine ...
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Flammability Observer: Recent Developments Regarding Flammable Products

This section covers recent developments, including legislative, regulatory, recalls, and litigation filings and settlements relating to issues of fire and flammability. In September, 2000, Foster & Foster filed a furniture flammability lawsuit in ...
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Flammable Upholstered Furniture: Is there a deadly time bomb in your couch?

An unsupervised child defeats a child proof lighter and ignites the family couch. His parents are asleep. The frightened child runs to his room to hide. Forty seconds elapse before the smoke alarm sounds. His parents, startled by the alarm, take ...
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Florida Products Liability: Manufacturing Defects vs. Design Defects.

When a product injures someone, a court will ask the same sort of questions you would: How did the injury happen? Was there something wrong with the product? How badly was the person injured? Although these questions seem simple, the answers can be ...
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Guidance for Submitting Requests under 21 CFR 170.39 Threshold of Regulation for Substances used in Food Contact Articles

Listed below is guidance for submitting a request to FDA for consideration under the threshold of regulation process established by 21 CFR 170.39 (Final rule published on July 17, 1995; 60 FR 36582). Requests should be limited to only those ...
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Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms

Series: NIJ Research in Brief Published: May 1997 20 pages 41,893 bytes National Institute of Justice Research in Brief Jeremy Travis, Director May 1997 ------------------------------ Figures, charts, forms, and tables are not included in this ...
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Health & Fitness Medical Products: Caveat Emptor & FDA Jurisdiction

Americans spend billions of dollars annually on health and fitness medical products, such as heart rate monitors, blood pressure kits, body massagers and relaxation aids. These products are typically purchased without prescription in such places as ...
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Helmet Safety and Legal Liability

A question which always needs to be addressed is whether a rider is going to wear a safety approved helmet each and every time they ride. If you have anything to do with the horse or the property where the horse will be ridden, you need to make sure ...
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Herbal Supplements: Buyer Beware

For the past several years, an herbal supplement craze has been sweeping the country. Promises and claims of fast weight loss, better health, deeper concentration, more accurate memory, increased sexual performance, and a myriad of disease cures ...
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