"These are radical proposals, "says Harvey Kaplan, a pharmaceuticals industry defense lawyer in Kansas City, Mo. who is spreading the word among the defense bar as cochair of the Defense Research Institute's committee on European product liability law.

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"These are radical proposals, " says Harvey Kaplan, a pharmaceuticals industry defense lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri, who is spreading the word to the defense bar as cochair of the Defense Research Institute's committee on European product liability law.

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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.

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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.

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