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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Products Liability Update: The End of an Era: Lessons to Be Learned From the Bendectin Litigation
Two Mass Tort Settlements: One Up, One Down (So Far Update on Preemption Defense Since Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr The End of an Era - Lessons to be Learned from the Bendectin Litigation The End of an Era . Lessons to Be Learned From the ...
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Products Liability: Settling Products Liability Claims
If you have been injured by a defective product you probably already know all the ways that the injury has impacted your life. Maybe you see a fast and easy settlement as the quickest route to getting your life back together after the injury ...
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Products Liability Law in Japan
On July 1, 1994, Japan's national legislature, the Diet, enacted the country's first law specific to products liability: the Product Liability Law (Law No. 85, 1994) (PL Law). The law, which introduced the concept of strict liability and expanded ...
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Product 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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Products Liability Law: Explaining the McDonald’s coffee case.
Many people have heard about the elderly woman who was burned by coffee she purchased at a McDonald's drive-thru. Many people believe that the woman herself was driving the car when she spilled the coffee, and that she received over $3,000,000 ...
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Preemptive Defense May Soon Fade in Toxic Shock Syndrome Cases
Toxic Shock Syndrome, (hereinafter "TSS"), a serious and often fatal blood disease, has been linked to the use of menstrual tampons. Women who suffer from TSS as a result of using tampons, either die from complications of the disease or suffer from ...
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Passive Seatbelt Systems and the 65 MPH Speed Limit: A Cause for Concern
Seatbelts save lives and those know firsthand the risks of high speed automobile collisions always "buckle up." Rarely will you find highway patrol personnel, ambulance drivers, emergency room doctors, trial lawyers or professional racing drivers ...
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New Jersey Products Liability Law: Explaining the McDonald’s coffee case.
Many people have heard about the elderly woman who got almost three million dollars for burning herself when she spilled a cup of coffee she got at a McDonald's drive thru. Perhaps when you heard about that verdict you thought to yourself, "there ...
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Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) accepts reports from the public of any unusual event which occurred after a vaccination was given. In order to collect all information that may be of ...
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Winning Product Liability Cases
Product liability cases usually focus on competing experts debating whether the design of the product is sufficiently safe. The usual defense is that the product is designed substantially similar to the products of other manufacturers and/or that ...
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