Sentences with phrase «unreasonable risk»

Typically, various national or local institutions will alert consumers about unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products via product recalls.

The pursuit of claims against drug and medical device manufacturers by injured individuals serves a critical role in holding manufacturers accountable and protecting consumers from unreasonable risks and dangerous products.

Proven fuel reserves can not be entirely burned and the CO2 released into the atmosphere and / or ocean without unreasonable risk.

Consider the treatment of unreasonable risk creation in negligence.

Unfortunately, allowing counsel to be reached from a police car can generate unreasonable risks for officers.

The EEOC recognizes an employer's right to manage risks through background screening, and the law supports excluding an applicant if their criminal background clearly creates unreasonable risks.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grants licenses, or registrations, to pesticides that it has found do not pose unreasonable risks to human health and the environment; it has registered at least 865 pesticides, which are used in thousands of pesticide products.

Also, «knowledge of a condition which involves unreasonable risk of physical harm to persons on the land may not be imputed to a landlord merely from general knowledge that other properties of like age, construction, or design might possibly contain such hazardous conditions.

«If an employer knows a particular person's abusive conduct places employees at unreasonable risk of sexual harassment,» the judges wrote, «the employer can not escape responsibility to protect a likely future employee victim merely because the person has not previously abused that particular employee.»

The textbook definition of negligence is «conduct that falls below a standard of behavior established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm.»

Property owners owe a duty to guests to ensure they are not confronted with unreasonable risks and hazards that may jeopardize their safety.

The constraints imposed on FDA [US Food and Drug Administration] with regard to ensuring the absence of unreasonable risk associated with the use of dietary supplements make it difficult for the health of the American public to be adequately protected.»

I have a lot of money in money market funds, but I review the holdings of my funds to make sure that there are no «yield hogs» in the funds that might imply unreasonable risk.

One of the few investment forms which still promises gains without unreasonable risks right now seems to be real estate, because real estate prices in German urban areas (not so in rural areas!)

Pokémon Go is that video game, and it's becoming so popular so quickly that people are actually putting themselves and others in positions of unreasonable risk while playing.

Requires a plaintiff to show by «clear and convincing» evidence that a defendant «acted with malice or has shown a reckless and outrageous indifference to a highly unreasonable risk of harm and has acted with a conscious indifference to the health, safety and welfare of others.»

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.

Even if you sign a waiver of liability, the business entity offering the recreation, sports, or other activity program may not engage in egregiously dangerous behavior that puts the participants at unreasonable risk.

Loftier office location may be one element that nudges money managers to take unreasonable risks, whether during the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, historic volatility in the cybercurrency market or in the record stock market surge that ended in January.

These theory opines that property owners owe varying degrees of duty to protect lawful visitors (and sometimes even lawful visitors) from unreasonable risk of harm.

Over the next three years EPA will study whether the listed chemicals present an «unreasonable risk to humans and the environment.»

I don't feel like I'm taking an unreasonable risk to step out on the court with my teammates and play a game I love.

Part of a budget bill introduced late Friday and given final passage overnight declares the Midtown transportation hub to be «antiquated, substandard, and inadequate to meet current transportation and public safety needs and presents an unreasonable risk to the public.»

As of now, the E.P.A. has said PFOA is known to cause developmental and other adverse effects in laboratory animals, but the agency has yet to determine if the chemical poses an unreasonable risk to the public.

These four types of chemicals, the EPA said, raise «serious environmental or health concerns» and in some cases «may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health and the environment.»

Other interim status designations the Obama EPA assigned to new chemicals or uses indicated they were set either for «standard review,» as unable to be reviewed because of «insufficient information available» or as possibly presenting «unreasonable risk of injury.»

During the Obama administration, EPA would note whether new chemicals or new chemical uses were «not likely to present an unreasonable risk» to human health or the environment.

Although most chemicals are presumably safe, the lack of testing and ongoing bureaucratic delay imposed by existing legal requirements pose an unreasonable risk.

permitting a child, whose basic needs are met and who is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm, to engage in independent activities.

CPSC is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of the thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction.

«Toyota does not believe that the alleged defect creates an unreasonable risk to motor vehicle safety,» Chris Santucci, Toyota's regulatory affairs manager, wrote in a letter to NHTSA.

taking unreasonable risks and staying in unhealthy situations because of what I believed to be love...

A material defect is a specific issue with a system or component of a residential property that may have a significant, adverse impact on the value of the property, or that poses an unreasonable risk to people.

The amendment says neglect does not include permitting a child to engage in independent activities if the child «is of sufficient age and maturity to avoid harm or unreasonable risk of harm.»

(b) the condition is one of which the possessor knows or has reason to know and which he realizes or should realize will involve an unreasonable risk of death or serious bodily harm to such children, and

The appellate court explained that the elements of a premises liability claim are: (1) there was actual or constructive notice to the owner of the defects causing the injury, (2) the defects created an unreasonable risk of getting hurt, (3) the property owner failed to use reasonable care to get rid of or reduce the risk, and (4) the property owner's failure to utilize reasonable care was the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries.

Like any driver, a car manufacturer certainly has an obligation to the public to design and manufacture cars that are safe and do not pose an unreasonable risk of harm.

The CPSC is charged with protecting consumers from unreasonable risks of injury, death and property damage from thousands of types of products which cost our nation more than $ 1 trillion dollars annually.

Under a negligence theory, in comparison, one is liable for the results of actions, or inaction, where an ordinary person in the same position should have foreseen that the conduct would create an unreasonable risk of harm to others.

Similar to other commercial products, prescription drugs are also at risk to be defectively designed, manufactured, or marketed to the public in a manner that exposes consumers to unreasonable risk.