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Related: Product Liability: Under the Microscope Shopping liability policies

today each state and the District of Columbia haves their own unique laws pertaining to product liability. Manufacturers and sellers can be subject to as many as 51 different interpretations of what constitutes a "defective" product or seller negligence and the appropriate assessments for punitive damages.

* Punitive Damages in Product Liability and Design Disputes

During this 18-month span, you switched product liability coverage from one insurer to another.

* We use several ingredients we understand are commonly excluded by the product liability insurance carriers.

Successful defense of a medical product liability case is a team effort.

* Generic manufacturers would face higher insurance premiums, self-insurance costs and reserve spending on product liability.

Posing the question of whether product liability law is safety-enhancing does not, however, imply that this framing of the mission of product liability is appropriate.

* What Needs to Happen: Applying collateral estoppel correctly can allow a defendant to terminate a product liability suit based on an adverse workers' comp ruling.

"Further, it is likely this opinion will be cited in other product liability actions, including failure-to-warn cases in which plaintiffs sue retailers because they were not told about product defects," Regan says.

The company vice president and global sales officer, Dennis She, said, 'We are very delighted to provide our customers with a broad range of value added services and incentives that include local technical and after sales service support in Europe and North America, working capital financing solutions, speedier shipment from in-country warehouses, and product liability insurance as we expand our customer base in our key markets rapidly.

Practice Area: Personal Injury, Product Liability, Mass Torts

Buzby et al., Product Liability and Microbial Illness, 799 AGRICULTURAL ECON.

This strategy was coordinated by the Washington, D.C.-based Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC), a legal advocacy group for product manufacturers.

Carolina Academic Press (Durham, NC) has published "Mastering Product Liability," a new casebook that discusses the law of products liability.