There remains, moreover, a potential for product liability in pediatric vaccines and the technical difficulties in growing living organisms.
Surprisingly, the luxury-goods business is having a strong year, largely thanks to demand in China, the Gulf and other emerging economies. (Indeed, things have been so good that perfume-makers face a new product-liability problem in Russia, where oligarchs' girlfriends buy dozens of bottles in order to bathe in a fragrance, unaware that this can be deadly.) Japan, which experienced similar excesses in the 1980s, still accounts for around a quarter of global luxury-goods sales.
As previously stated, the company has continued to receive new product liability cases regarding Avandia in the United States.
Biller, now entangled in litigation with the auto giant, defended the company in product liability and negligence cases from 2003 to 2007.
Merck emerged as a victor in the seventh product-liability lawsuit related to its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx, bringing its total tally of wins in the litigation to four.
The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a product liability bill (S648) in May 1997, similar to the legislation vetoed by Clinton in 1996.
For instance, the transfer to Europe during the 1980s of an American legal approach to product liability produced far less litigation than in America.
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This, in effect, stretched product liability laws by claiming that oil companies that refined, marketed and sold MTBE-laced gasoline knew it would leak and contaminate water supplies.
In other large product-liability cases, such as cigarettes or asbestos, there seems to be a well-established link between the products and a specific disease, such as asbestosis or lung cancer.
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But companies will recognise it, says Mr Steinhardt, because they already think in such terms when assessing product liability, employment law or raising capital.
Robot safety is likely to surface in the civil courts as a matter of product liability.
Rockefeller is among a small group of Democrats who have joined Republicans in backing an overhaul of the nation's product liability laws.
Regarding Avandia, in July 2010 the company took a provision for product liability cases relating to the product that had been settled or received at that time.
The tide started to turn in 1985, when the European Commission passed a"product liability"directive, since adopted as law by all of the European Community member states.
The tide started to turn in 1985, when the European Commission passed a "product liability" directive, since adopted as law by all the member states of the European Community.
Meanwhile the courts have shackled product innovators in a separate way, by greatly expanding the risks of tort liability.
New Orleans, Miami and Atlanta have pursued a more traditional product-liability claim, arguing that gun makers failed to incorporate enough safety devices in their handguns.
If the trial bar is successful in the current case, this could be the next big area of product liability against drug makers.
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"The draft statute will make it very easy for software publishers to disclaim all liability for the quality of their product and to provide no meaningful remedy, " Braucher wrote in an article, just published in the July issue of the UCC Bulletin, a legal newsletter.
In addition to the tax cut package, the Senate also has yet to deal with the House's welfare reform package, its anti-crime proposals, legal and product liability reform, and its foreign policy plank to curb the use of U.S. troops in U.N. run missions.
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