• Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public...
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  • market for liability insurance, with USD 9.9 billion of liability premiums in 2013. The largest sub-line of business is public and product liability. This...
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  • them. In the field of torts, prominent examples of strict liability may include product liability, abnormally dangerous activities (e.g., blasting), intrusion...
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    bystanders may be subject to product liability. A product can be classified as tangible or intangible. A tangible product is an actual physical object...
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  • use the company cars. Product-related liability (also called manufacturer's liability) details poor manufacturing of products that results in injuries...
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  • to warn arises in product liability cases, as manufacturers can be held liable for injuries caused by their products if the product causes an injury to...
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  • commercial and product liability lines, while personal automobile insurance shrinks. Self-driving car liability and self-driving vehicle liability may be impacted...
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  • the service or product sold by the policyholder. These are causes for legal action that would not be covered by a more general liability insurance policy...
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  • civil wrongs Product liability, the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to...
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    malpractice, product liability, and defamation torts (i.e., libel, false light, and slander). Additionally, the emergence of absolute liability and constitutional...
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    secondary liability. Liability may arise through enterprise liability or, in product liability cases in the United States, market share liability. In certain...
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  • State of the art (category Product liability)
    respect to both patent law and tort liability. In advertising, the phrase is often used to convey that a product is made with the best or latest available...
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  • Some jurisdictions have passed statutes of repose in the context of products liability law, or for probate court proceedings. A statute of repose is distinct...
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  • defective automobile or component of an automobile, that person asserts a product liability claim. That claim may be against the automobile's manufacturer, the...
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  • caused by defective products is called product liability. A wide range of circumstances can render a product defective. The product may have a design defect...
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    The Product Liability Directive 85/374/EEC is a directive of the Council of the European Communities (now the European Union) which created a regime of...
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  • liability insurance is a broad type of insurance policy which provides liability insurance for general business risks. Commercial General Liability (CGL)...
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    effects of prolonged product liability on general aviation aircraft manufacturers, by limiting the duration of their liability for the aircraft they...
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  • contracts and specially drafted warranties. Many EULAs assert extensive liability limitations. Most commonly, a EULA will attempt to hold harmless the software...
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    codeine-containing cold medication. In 2009, the US Supreme Court ruled on a product liability case involving promethazine. Diana Levine, a woman with a migraine...
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    (employers liability), public liability, product liability, commercial fleet and other general insurance products sold in a relatively standard fashion to...
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    A product recall is a request from a manufacturer to return a product after the discovery of safety issues or product defects that might endanger the...
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    privity requirement against hapless consumers had harsh results in many product liability cases. The idea of a general duty of care that runs to all who could...
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  • they originate from a different brand or supplier. Product liability – The area of law in which products manufacturers, distributors and sellers are held...
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  • Where two or more persons are liable in respect of the same liability, in most common law legal systems they may either be: jointly liable, or severally...
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    Louisiana Products Liability Act". He argued that the Products Liability Act would "bring added clarity, precision and certainty to Louisiana's products liability...
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  • The Liability for Defective Products Act 1991 is an Act of the Oireachtas that augmented Irish law on product liability formerly based solely on negligence...
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  • Vicarious liability is a form of a strict, secondary liability that arises under the common law doctrine of agency, respondeat superior, the responsibility...
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  • Irish law on product liability was for most of its history based solely on negligence. With the Liability for Defective Products Act, 1991 it has now...
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    document may be dispositive in the event of a legal dispute. (See e.g., Product liability, Toxicity class, Rule against perpetuities, Public Health Cigarette...
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