Sentences with phrase «of design defects»

These wobble accidents are an issue of design defects, rather than driver error, and you could receive compensation from the manufacturer or a mechanic.

Examples of design defects can include inaccurate measurements, calling for improper materials, or failing to include a safety feature.

Served as second - chair trial counsel and secured defense verdict following seven - week jury trial in the California Superior Court for the County of Orange of action for strict and negligent products liability and negligence based on allegations of design defects, manufacturing defects, and warning defects.

Defended an architect against allegations of design defects in a multi-million dollar residence.

This can happen because of design defects, and poor quality control protocols of manufacturers.

Products may be dangerous because of design defects, manufacturing defects, incomplete or incorrect instructions, failure to provide danger warnings, or failure to honor warranties.

U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed support on Tuesday for Microsoft's bid to fend off class action claims by Xbox 360 owners who say the video game console gouges discs because of a design defect.

Gallo said it is necessary to veto the resolution because «the prior administration and former members of the city council are all aware of the design defect, use of sub-standards materials and poor supervision and mismanagement over the project.»

Most notable is his forthright account of NASA's failure to protect the crew of the space shuttle Challenger, which blew up in 1986 because of a design defect in the O - rings that sealed sections of the ship's solid - fuel boosters.

The ruling upheld the dismissal of design defect claims in a suit alleging that certain manufacturers are liable under theories of strict (product) liability and negligence.

Second, a product can be unreasonably dangerous because of a design defect.

Examples of a design defect could include:

Defended domestic mobile, all - terrain crane manufacturer in wrongful death case in state court involving claims of design defect.

The claim of responsibility may arise when a product is defective as a result of design defect, production defect or failure to warn the user about the product.

Not exact matches

In particular, the complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that (1) the trials for GED - 0301 suffered from fatal design defects, such that GED - 0301 had failed to demonstrate meaningful clinical efficacy; (2) the growth of Otezla sales had dramatically slowed during Celgene's third fiscal quarter of 2017; and (3) the clinical and nonclinical pharmacology data in Celgene's new drug application («NDA») for Ozanimod were insufficient to permit a complete review by the FDA, which resulted in the FDA issuing a refusal to file letter to Celgene regarding the NDA.

This referendum was called by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron because of a promise made in his election campaign to renegotiate terms with the EU and then hold a referendum, designed to win over voters he feared would defect to UKIP.

While the Sponsor believes it has developed a proprietary Security System reasonably designed to safeguard, to the extent possible, the Trust's Bitcoins from theft, loss, destruction or other issues relating to hackers and technological attack, the Security System is not impenetrable and may not be free from defect, and any loss due to a security breach or software defect will be borne by the Trust, absent gross negligence, willful misconduct or fraud on the part of the Sponsor, the Trustee or their agents.

Occasionally babys are born with horrible, horrible defects, and the ID - iots believe that the most innocent of us all are «intelligently designed» that way?

that's right, beauty is in the imperfection, for instants the genetic defect that make us all look individually different is a mutation, mistake of natures design.

If everything in the human «design» has «purpose» then YOU explain why so many of us are myopic, why so many of us have to get braces for our teeth to be straight, why so many of us have to get our wisdom teeth removed because there is not enough room in the jaw to support that many teeth, why there are so many birth defects, why there is an appendix, why men have boobs, etc..

What confronts us is not a series of separate crises in industry, economics and ecology but a single basic defect that lies deep in the design of modern society, be it in capitalist, socialist, developing or developed countries.

Their most refined discussion is of policies consciously designed to correct defects in the market distribution of income, wealth and human capital.

Designed to identify the characteristics of good products and defects, creating new sorting opportunities for nuts, dried fruit, and other food applications.

Dr. Kasra Momeni, Director of Advanced Hierarchical Materials by Design Laboratory and faculty member of Mechanical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University, elaborates that the presence of structural defects including stacking faults can significantly alter the stress distribution.

«Breakthrough in circuit design makes electronics more resistant to damage and defects: A newly published paper in Nature Electronics details how researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center, GC / CUNY, used an array of nonlinear resonators to overcome signal disruption when electronic circuits are broken or damaged.»

«It's possible that this is part of a new wave of drug treatments that are actually designed to address the immune defect,» says Phan.

«If the distribution of defects becomes controllable, we can design a variety of functional materials.

In a new study published in Materials and Design, noted materials researcher Nikhil Gupta, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, his doctoral student Fei Chen and former student Gary Mac show how certain intentionally induced defects can disappear when the part is printed under a very specific set of conditions.

After all, the first reactor built at Qinshan back in 1990 — the first reactor ever designed and constructed entirely by the Chinese — had to be torn down and rebuilt because of faults in the foundation as well as defects in the welding of the steel vessel that contained the reactor itself.

In an opinion joined by five of his colleagues, Antonin Scalia carefully parsed the language of the 1986 act, which didn't mention the specific type of problem the girl's family had raised: a so - called design defect.

The techniques could be used to produce more polished images for graphic - design projects, or, applied in the opposite direction, they could disclose structural defects, camouflaged objects, or movements invisible to the naked eye that could be of scientific interest.

32 The Third Restatement specifically addresses each of manufacturing defects, design defects, and failure to warn, but, notably, ties liability for design defects and failure to warn to «foreseeable risks.»

Risk - utility tests generally examine whether the risks posed by an alleged design defect could have been avoided or reduced through the use of an alternative solution that would not have impaired the utility of the product or unnecessarily increased its cost.

While the landscape is somewhat in flux with respect to the specific theories of liability that can be invoked to pursue claims regarding manufacturing defects, design defects, and failure to warn, all three remain central to products liability law.

Liability for an alleged design defect is often determined using a risk - utility test, 36 the standards of which vary in different states.

The proposed project is designed to identify some of the changes that cause these age - related defects.

Controlling the formation of defects in materials is a vital part of designing next - generation materials for computing.

However, the interplay of structural, chemical and microstructural degrees of freedom introduces enormous complexity, especially if defects, solid solutions, non-stoichiometry and multi-component compounds are involved, which the current state - of - the - art tools are not yet designed to handle.

«This opens the possibility of «defect engineering» in graphene — plucking out atoms in the right places to design the magnetic properties you want,» said Fuhrer.

Avalanche has two drug candidates designed to treat the most common forms of color vision deficiency: AVA - 322 carries the gene for L - opsin and targets protan defects and AVA - 323 carries the gene for M - opsin and targets deutan defects.

Some might argue (quite rightly in some cases) that local authorities were never up to the challenge of managing these contracts and there is a poor history of holding contractors to account both for defects in design and now the longer term maintenance of the school buildings.

I wouldn't necessarily call either service team dishonest... Best action for the long term reliability of your car is to fix defects to manufacturer's design intent.

ODI is also implementing and exploring additional technological solutions designed to make its review of defect reports, investigations, and enforcement activities even more effective and efficient.

The «ISQ1» study of the early years measured 89 problem attributes, mainly design and defects, Sargent said, and the current survey, called IQS4, pinpoints 233 problem attributes.

His firm produced its first IQS in 1987, and in recent years has come under some criticism that it weighs poorly designed interior features such as ACEN systems over defects that potentially can put a new vehicle out of commission.

However, if a strut fails prior to 50,000 miles of service, the causes are typically: 1) product / design / manufacturing defect; 2) extreme...

While Power calls it the «Initial Quality Survey,» the survey owners about actual repairs needed in the first 90 days of ownership (defects and malfunctions) but in recent years IQS also asks about things owners don't like about the car («design - related problems»).

Awards are given to the top - performing model in each segment with the lowest PP100, as well as for the assembly plant that produces the vehicles with the fewest number of problems (plant awards are based on defects and malfunctions only and not design quality).

In addition, this Warranty does not apply: (a) to consumable parts that are designed to diminish over time, unless failure has occurred due to a defect in materials or workmanship; (b) to damage caused by a third party device or service (including upgrades and expansions), or (c) to obsolescence or lack of utility with future versions of external hardware or software, including, but not limited to mobile devices.

A group of Jeep Grand Cherokee owners has filed a class - action lawsuit against Jeep parent company Fiat Chrysler Automobiles alleging it concealed a shifter design defect.