Now that things settled a bit from 2015, we see the hover boards return. Resellers learned their lesson and more and more of them are now rising up. For the regular consumer it means products that are more reliable, safer and better warranty coverage. On the other hand prices did increase a bit. If a [...]
Huge jury verdicts against companies over fatal flaws in their products made a comeback last year, which may foretell more bad news for car makers with defective parts. Absent for a decade, billion-dollar verdicts returned in product defect suits in 2014. The largest was for $23.6 billion in favor of the family of a smoker who [...]
In the United States, the claims most commonly associated with product liability are negligence, strict liability, breach of warranty, and various consumer protection claims. The majority of product liability laws are determined at the state level and vary widely from state to state. Each type of product liability claim requires different elements to be proven [...]
Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause. Although the word "product" has broad connotations, product liability as an area of law is traditionally limited to products in the form of tangible [...]
