A comprehensive series of articles covering eleven topical areas of products liability law and describing the fundamentals as they apply to life sciences companies.
May
15
This article discusses marketing and warranty defects, and specifically how life sciences companies can get into trouble by virtue of their oral and written statements made before and after sale.
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April
18
As the common law of products liability has evolved over the years, three defects that exist in the product at the time of sale have been identified as the main components of a products liability lawsuit.
March
Manufacturing defects were the original defects envisioned when strict liability was first conceived in the early 1900s. Its focus was on foreign matter and other contamination in food and beverages. The theory was that the injured party shouldn’t...
February
05
Products liability is one of the most important U.S. legal developments in the last 100 years for numerous people and entities: consumers, product-users including hospitals and health care practitioners, manufacturers and others who produce…
January
21
Products liability has created problems for product manufacturers, sellers and product-users for centuries. More recently, however, there has been an expansion of liability well beyond anything that was originally contemplated when products liability...