Product Liability

Business Law and Product Liability In the past years, product liability laws have been brought into the spotlight as never before. Newspapers and magazines have featured headline stories about "huge" product liability awards resulting from such things as spilled coffee and bad car paint jobs. In addition, there have been fierce battles for "reform" of products liability law in the United States Congress, and numerous state legislatures have attempted to rewrite common law by enacting …

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