Technology executives in particular had plenty to apologize for this past year--from defective products to slip-ups in how they handled private data collected via the Internet.
Labour supports the bill, which will introduce a new regime following the Supreme Court's decision earlier this year that earlier powers were defective.
They managed to squeeze a provision in the proposed energy bill that passed the House last year, giving MTBE makers and refiners liability protection from defective-product suits.
The same jury determined last year that the industry conspired to make a deadly, addictive and defective product which caused cancer and other diseases.