Products liability law /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Wolter Kluwer Law & Business,
2012
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| Series: | Aspen casebook series
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Table of Contents:
- The big picture
- Doctrinal foundations of strict products liability
- The substantive basis of strict products liability
- Construction or manufacturing defects
- Design defects
- Warning defects
- The relation between warnings and product design
- Medical products and the exemption of "unavoidably unsafe" products from strict products liability
- Products liability in the "age of statutes"
- Factual causation
- Scope of liability : proximate cause
- Damages and the scope of liability as defined by the type of injury
- Defenses based on consumer conduct
- The scope of strict products liability as defined by the nature of the transaction
- Bystander liability
- Comparative products liability