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
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PHKS Technology Alert: Wayward Trends in Internet Unfair Competition Litigation
To the Unwary Goes the Spoliation Claim Are you in danger of having to defend an allegation of spoliation? Do you even know that there is such a danger? Spoliation is the destruction, loss, or significant alteration of evidence, whether a document ...
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Politics Can Impact Your Rights
On May 18, 1998, Governor Lawton Chiles vetoed SB874. This Bill would have made significant changes to the State's tort system affecting the rights and safety of Florida's families. This was an extreme Bill. Governor Chiles stated that this Bill ...
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Potential Y2K Products Liability Litigation
The nightmare scenario: an embedded chip exists in an intake/filtration device at a water-treatment facility. This chip regulates the timed release of water from a large reservoir into a bay. At the Year 2000, the chip fails, and the reservoir ...
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Prepared Statement from the Federal Trade Commission on Advertising, Marketing and Antitrust Issues in the Global Tobacco Settlement
Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, I am here at the request of the Committee to present the testimony of the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission") (1) on two subjects related to the global tobacco settlement. First, I will ...
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Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Regarding a Proposed Tobacco Industry Settlement
Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, I am pleased to appear before you today to present the testimony of the Federal Trade Commission. (1) This testimony will discuss the competitive and economic implications of the antitrust immunity ...
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Privity of Contract Necessary in Order to Claim Breach of Implied Warranties
All West Electronics, Inc. v. M-B-W, Inc., 75 Cal.Rptr.2d 509 (Cal. Ct. App. 5th Cir. 6/4/98). PRIVITY OF CONTRACT NECESSARY IN ORDER TO CLAIM BREACH OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES- California law states that (i) privity of contract (a direct contractual ...
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Product Liability in Texas
Sargenti Paste, an electric blanket, and a pneumatic nail gun, what do these things have in common? To the Claunch Law Firm each of these items represented a product liability lawsuit. Maybe you or a member of your family has been injured by a ...
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Product Liability Report: Winter 1999
In an age of corporate mergers and acquisitions, courts are increasingly asked to resolve the issue of a corporate successor's right to coverage under a corporate predecessor's insurance policies, for the predecessor's liabilities. So far, California courts ...
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Products Liability Preemption Debate Awaits New Supreme Court Directive
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a federal preemption case in its 2004-05 term involving the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. §§ 136-137 (FIFRA). The question presented in Bates v. Dow Agrosciences LLC, 03-388, is ...
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Products Liability Report: Winter 1999
In this issue: A trial court in upstate New York recently extended the market share theory of liability to cases involving exposure to white lead pigment. In Brenner v. American Cyanamid Company, N.Y. L.J., Feb. 3, 1999, at 31 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Feb ...
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