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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Bike Riding Safely and Legally
Whether you ride for recreational purposes or competitively, following basic safety rules can help you avoid accidents or serious injuries when an accident occurs. 1. Wear a helmet with a hard shell 2. Ride the proper size bike 3. Equip your bike ...
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Biotech, Medical Device Companies Encounter Prop. 65
Reprint from , a publication from Harding Lawson Associates and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP . It began as a routine merger. An established Southern California biotechnology company was acquiring a smaller firm to expand its capabilities and ...
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Boating Negligence
. Monmouth County The defendant argued to the Court that principles of the duties owed by a landowner should apply and that the defendant could not be liable to the plaintiff licensee because the alleged negligence did not involve a failure to warn ...
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Breast Cancer False Positives Are Possible
Recently, the New England Journal of Medicine published results of a study indicating that a woman who has an annual mammogram, as medically recommended for some women, has a 50-50 chance that over a 10-year period one of those mammograms will ...
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Business Practice: Document Retention and Destruction: To Shred or Not To Shred
In the wake of the Enron collapse, many were jolted by stories of document shredding. The media recoiled, shareholders blanched, and lawyers began brushing off briefs on spoliation and destruction of evidence. The document destruction allegations ...
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California’s One Year Statute of Limitations: Extended until Suspicion of Injury
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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California Supreme Court Turns Back Gun Foes in Merrill v. Navegar
The California Supreme Court has dealt a serious setback to gun opponents who seek to hold gun manufacturers and distributors liable for criminal shootings. In a 5-1 decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that California law barred lawsuits ...
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Can Auto Manufacturers Meet New Fuel-Efficiency Standards Without Compromising Safety?
Article provided by Phillips & Lyon. Please visit our Web site at www.phillipsandlyon.com. When laws and regulations seem to collide in their intent, the result is almost always litigation and, more often than not, numerous appeals. The courts ...
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Can Trial Lawyers Really Help Make Cars Safer?
Recently this question was posed by Automotive News, "the automotive industry's leading newspaper." And the overwhelming evidence, some of which is summarized in the two dozen cases cited below, clearly indicates that "the verdict is yes ...
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Car Seat Heater Burn Injury Cases
Car seat heaters are commonplace but these very heaters that offer comfort to many of us, are often the cause of severe, permanent burn injuries to paraplegics, quadriplegics or others that have lower body sensory deficits. Many of the electric car ...
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