Products Liability The phrase "products
liability" is used to describe situations in which a person or property is
injured or damaged in some way due to a defective product or service.
Products liability is not a legal theory like strict liability, negligence,
or intentional torts, rather the phrase simply means that the supplier,
manufacturer, retailer, or other provider of a product or service may be
liable for any injury or damage caused by such product or service.
There are generally three types of
defective products, those with defective designs, those that are
manufactured improperly, and those that are sold with inadequate
instructions and/or warnings concerning their proper use.
Design defects occur when the engineering
process used by a company to design a product is faulty, resulting in a
product that is unnecessarily dangerous. With a design defect, all of
the items that come off a company's assembly line have the same defect.
On the other hand, a manufacturing defect occurs when a product is not
manufactured as designed. While there is nothing wrong with the
product's overall design, the manner in which it is assembled is flawed.
With a manufacturing defect, the problem is usually not common to all of
the items which roll off the company's assembly line, but rather with
only a few. Finally, a marketing defect is one that renders a
product unsafe by reason of inadequate instructions or warnings.
Serious injury or death can result when a product is misused in a
forseeable way by the ultimate consumer.
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suffered an injury or death due to an unreasonably dangerous or defective
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