When a consumer is injured by the proper use of a product, the law
of products liability applies.
Not exact matches
This limitation
of liability also
applies irrespective
of the cause, including negligence
of us or a Supplier, withdrawal, cancellation, or failure to provide a
Product, delay, any variation in the
Product, the provision
of substitute
Products or a change in the Supplier.
For instance, in a personal injury case involving a defective
product, the final jury instructions will include information on both personal injury law and
products liability law, as well as an explanation
of the general negligence standard that may
apply to both personal injury and
products liability cases.
Strict
liability may be
applied in
products liability cases, such as when a manufacturer or seller
of a defective
product puts that
product into the stream
of commerce and users are injured.
Whether it is automobile, truck, cruise ship, airline, premises
liability, medical malpractice, defective
product or some other mechanism
of injury we have the experience to
apply the wrongful death laws for the benefit
of our clients.
One form
of liability is warranty
liability, which arises from an express or implied contract with a purchaser
of the
product and only
applied to parties to the contract.
It does not
apply to minors or interdicts in actions involving permanent disability and brought pursuant to the Louisiana
Products Liability Act or state law governing product liability actions in effect at the time of the injury o
Liability Act or state law governing
product liability actions in effect at the time of the injury o
liability actions in effect at the time
of the injury or damage.
For strict
liability to
apply, the
product must have been purchased in the chain
of distribution.
Product Liability Defense: Applying the Rule of Law Now and in the Future, INSIDE THE MINDS: LEADING PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWYERS - INDUSTRY INSIDERS ON THE ART AND SCIENCE BEHIND SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT LIABILITY LAW (July / August 2003)(Aspatore
Product Liability Defense: Applying the Rule of Law Now and in the Future, INSIDE THE MINDS: LEADING PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWYERS - INDUSTRY INSIDERS ON THE ART AND SCIENCE BEHIND SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT LIABILITY LAW (July / August 2003)(Aspato
Liability Defense:
Applying the Rule
of Law Now and in the Future, INSIDE THE MINDS: LEADING
PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWYERS - INDUSTRY INSIDERS ON THE ART AND SCIENCE BEHIND SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT LIABILITY LAW (July / August 2003)(Aspatore
PRODUCT LIABILITY LAWYERS - INDUSTRY INSIDERS ON THE ART AND SCIENCE BEHIND SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT LIABILITY LAW (July / August 2003)(Aspato
LIABILITY LAWYERS - INDUSTRY INSIDERS ON THE ART AND SCIENCE BEHIND SUCCESSFUL
PRODUCT LIABILITY LAW (July / August 2003)(Aspatore
PRODUCT LIABILITY LAW (July / August 2003)(Aspato
LIABILITY LAW (July / August 2003)(Aspatore Books)
The primary occasion when the courts have rejected a plaintiff's effort to seek application
of the doctrine
of strict
product liability, on the ground that there is no
product, has been when he or she has tried to
apply the theory to defective services, rather than defective goods.
In the 1970's, he handled the first case in the Court
of Appeals
of Maryland to
apply the doctrine
of «strict
liability in tort» to an actual
product liability case in the Maryland courts.
When the negligence is in relation to
product design or manufacturing or a failure to warn appropriately, the area
of law that
applies is called defective
products,
product liability or strict
products liability.
While New Mexico
product liability law differs from that which was
applied by the court in this case, the case is still illustrative
of how manufacturers can be held liable for
products that are defectively designed or manufactured.
And plaintiffs from across the country love the state high court's willingness to
apply New Jersey's longer - running statute
of limitations to
product liability claims.
(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to
product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort
of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not
apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its
products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict
liability on an entity not in the
product's chain
of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach
of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.
He's been doing some thinking about how something analogous to the «two schools
of thought» medical malpractice doctrine should
apply to medical
product liability cases.
THIS LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY SHALL ALSO
APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OR OTHER SERVICES OR
PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SimplyInsured SERVICE, OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SimplyInsured SERVICE, OR SERVICES,
PRODUCTS OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN THE SimplyInsured SERVICE.
Courts began to
apply the concept
of strict
liability to
products in the 1960s and 1970s, determining that the costs
of injuries from defective
products should be borne by the companies responsible for the defects, not by the injured users.
7.11 In circumstances where the Non-Excluded Guarantees do not
apply, we and our committee
of management, officers, employees, agents, contractors, service providers, successors or assigns exclude
liability for any loss or damage whatsoever (including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages) you may suffer arising out
of, or in any way related to use
of the
Product or Paid
Product.