Robot safety is likely to surface in the civil courts as a matter of product liability.
Eight years later Congress passed legislation that removed the seemingly infinite stinger from product liability.
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Known as the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, it limited product liability to 18 years.
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There remains, moreover, a potential for product liability in pediatric vaccines and the technical difficulties in growing living organisms.
This feeling extends beyond employment law to areas such as product liability and environmental damage.
Then, who is the US product liability lawyer signing off on buying 1000 cases of Italian methotrexate?
Congress cleared a product liability bill in 1996, but Clinton vetoed it, saying it did not adequately protect consumers.
As previously stated, the company has continued to receive new product liability cases regarding Avandia in the United States.
Essentially, any company that might be the target of a product liability lawsuit.
"One case doesn't tell us much, " says Carl Tobias, who teaches product liability law at the University of Richmond.
"It's not a benefit for Merck, " says Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond who teaches product liability law.
Given the Chinese courts' reputation for indifference when it comes to product liability, the pool of potential complaints must be vast.
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Rockefeller is among a small group of Democrats who have joined Republicans in backing an overhaul of the nation's product liability laws.
However, Clinton said he would support a "common sense" product liability bill.
The House has yet to take up a broad product liability bill.
Biller, now entangled in litigation with the auto giant, defended the company in product liability and negligence cases from 2003 to 2007.
Wipro Spectramind is also spreading into accounting, insurance, procurement and product liability.
The question of product liability would be best left to civil law.
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 question is, to what extent do product liability laws apply to trademark licensors that are not manufacturers or sellers of defective products?
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Automakers could embrace the inevitable increase in their product liability and bundle insurance with their vehicles rather than letting downstream players take those profits.
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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.
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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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.
Drug companies are well used to class-action suits over product liability.
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.
Chrysler is also lobbying state and federal lawmakers to rewrite laws on product liability, including asbestos-related health claims, which threaten to swamp all three Detroit automakers.
Governments will find it hard to solve many of the problems the conference will discuss differing international rules on privacy, consumer protection and product liability, for instance.
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.
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.
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