Quinn and her longtime partner, products liability lawyer Kim Catullo, married last year after more than a decade together.
The plaintiff, Rene Green, brought this products liability lawsuit, asserting that a defective gas can manufactured by Blitz caused the death of her husband.
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In Re: Actos (Pioglitazone) Products Liability Litigation recently surfaced as the newest case to fuel the continuing debate about the use of predictive coding technology in litigation.
It made perfect sense in the land of products liability.
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The case requires the high court to determine whether the motor vehicle safety standards established by the federal government effectively preempt a products liability claim under state tort law.
Yesterday, the U. S. Supreme Court recognized that Congress meant what it said, holding that the Vaccine Act expressly preempts all state-law products liability suits challenging the design of widely administered childhood vaccines, which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has already determined to be safe and effective.
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Now the Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Pennsylvania judge was correct in allowing jurors to consider that evidence. (Thanks Abnormal Use for the tip.) The decision is interesting because it discusses not only the logical tension embedded in much modern products-liability law but the intellectual calisthenics federal judges must engage in when hearing a case based on state tort law.
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The Industrial Lines segment includes insurance products such as liability, motor, accident, fire, property, legal protection, marine, special lines, and engineering insurance for large and mid-size enterprises.
The case presents an excellent opportunity to review the laws of trademark licensor liability for injuries caused by licensed products.
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The Chamber says companies need to know where they can be sued to predict what sort of liability they will incur by selling products.
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Supporters of the plaintiffs say product-liability law is designed to prod manufacturers into producing safer products.
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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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Starting in the mid-1960s courts increasingly held manufacturers liable for injuries their products caused, even when user ineptitude was a contributing factor, under the theory that liability would spur the manufacturer to come up with safer designs.
It (they) only exist to purchase services and products from Apple and then to sell those unchanged products back to Apple but at inflated costs, thereby making Apple seem less profitable and thus reducing their tax liability.
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