Download or read book Product Defects and Hazards written by James T. O'Reilly and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1987 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume ties in civil liability's reach into design and warnings, and contrasts those defects with each of the product categories in which governmental regulatory agencies make thier defect decisions.

Download or read book Product Warnings Defects and Hazards written by James T. O'Reilly and published by Aspen Publishers. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James O'Reilly takes you to the intersection of the regulatory side of defects and the tort liability concept of defects to reveal the many potential consequences for all parties. Use this resource to save the time and energy you'd otherwise spend consulting multiple sources for the patchwork of defect controls and the standards for products regulated by multiple government bodies. The Second Edition covers the full range of defect issues, including: Use of evidence of a government finding of "defect" in a subsequent torts action -- Duties to report discovery of defect to government, and the risk of penalties -- Limitations on the drag product warning exclusion from strict liability -- Product recalls and their admissibility as evidence in strict liability and negligence cases -- Private causes of action arising from federal regulatory defect controls. Whether you are bringing a product defect case or defending against one, you need the clear guidance only Product Warnings, Defects and Hazards supplies.

Download or read book The Consumer Product Safety Commission Has No Assurance that Product Defects are Being Reported and Corrected written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook Standard for Manufacturing Safer Consumer Products written by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Food Defect Action Levels written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Specific Consumer Expectations Test for Product Defects written by Clayton Masterman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consumer expectations test in products liability law holds firms liable for producing goods that are more dangerous than the reasonable consumer would anticipate. But judicial experience in the majority of states that have utilized the consumer expectations test demonstrates that it is ambiguous and impossible to apply in a predictable manner. The test is ill-suited for regulating complex products or markets with heterogeneous consumers; moreover, courts must expend significant resources to identify consumers' ex ante beliefs about product risks, even when consumers lacked tangible beliefs about products at the time of purchase. The other major test that courts apply to design defects, the risk-utility test, is also not well defined. The several factors of the risk-utility test are difficult for courts to apply consistently and permit courts to overrule the preferences of consumers who may be willing to tolerate higher risks for lower prices.In this Article, we propose that courts adopt an amended version of the consumer expectations test that we call the “specific consumer expectations test.” The specific consumer expectations test would apply to any product or product component for which consumers have clear, articulable ex ante expectations about the function of the product. Under the specific consumer expectations test, a defendant is liable if consumers expected such a product to reduce a particular risk, and the product in fact increased that risk. Similarly, if a product was intended to convey a particular benefit, but in fact harmed consumers along the same dimension, the test is violated. For example, if defective airbags increased the risk of injury after a motor-vehicle crash rather than decreased the risk, that product would fail the specific consumer expectations test. By shifting the law's focus from measuring the magnitude of consumer expectations to a simpler identification of the direction that consumers expected risks to change, the specific expectations test increases the administrability of products liability law and captures most of the incentives that the traditional consumer expectations test could theoretically provide. In particular, firms are incentivized to produce products that never increase risks unexpectedly, and consumers are empowered to purchase products which reflect their willingness to pay for risks. In cases where consumers lack specific expectations, courts should apply the risk-utility test to minimize unanticipated accident costs to consumers and firms. We bolster our analysis with a novel experiment that demonstrates that the specific expectations test is consistent with the preferences of actual consumers. Our incentive-compatible experiment asked subjects to make consumption decisions over various risky products and determine punishments for the firms that manufacture defective products. The results reveal that individuals demand substantially greater punishments for firms that produce products that violate specific expectations. But, before the defect has been manifested, consumers are willing to tolerate prospective defect risks in general as well as defects that would cause a product to perform the opposite of its intended function. It is after the defect has occurred that consumers display their much greater outrage with respect to product defects that impose harms that are the opposite of the intended function of the product or product component. Taken together, these results indicate that the specific expectations test would deter manufacturers from making defective products in the exact circumstances where consumers suffer the greatest harms from product defects, and the test would permit consumers to choose when to consume dangerous products without producers risking ex post liability.

Download or read book Safer by Design written by Howard Abbott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product safety begins with design or formulation whether it is for a complex engineering product or a simple household article. Those who suffer damage from a design defect can win compensation without having to prove negligence. Manufacturers, suppliers and importers can all be responsible for ensuring that their products are safe. To help protect them against prosecution, customer dissatisfaction and commercial loss requires a programme of risk reduction, which begins with the management of design. Design and product development require a balanced approach to the new realities of the legal situation, both for companies and individual designers. Part One reviews the strategy needed to manage design in the fresh legal climate and includes guidance on techniques that can be used. Part Two is a jargon-free guide through the difficult area of international product liability law. It has been entirely rewritten to reflect the many recent changes to influence European law and a designer's personal liability. Part Three brings home vividly the physical, legal and commercial risks of product defects and demonstrates ways in which they could be prevented. There are over 20 real life, fascinating and instructive case histories, many of them new, ranging from exploding office chairs to ro-ro ferries and from washing powder to aircraft. Safer by Design is exceptional in providing management and risk assessment advice, coupled with legal guidance and actual practical lessons.

Download or read book The Product Safety Book written by Stephen Brobeck and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fish and Fishery Products written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidance will assist processors of fish and fishery products in the development of their Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans. Processors of fish and fishery products will find info. that will help them identify hazards that are associated with their products, and help them formulate control strategies. It will help consumers understand commercial seafood safety in terms of hazards and their controls. It does not specifically address safe handling practices by consumers or by retail estab., although the concepts contained in this guidance are applicable to both. This guidance will serve as a tool to be used by fed. and state regulatory officials in the evaluation of HACCP plans for fish and fishery products. Illustrations. This is a print on demand report.

Download or read book The Product Liability Handbook written by Sam Brown and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assists manufacturers and engineers in assessing the safety of their industrial, structural, and consumer products and in determining the cause of product failure, with an eye toward minimizing defects in future product designs. Also addresses the other parties that are involved in product safety and quality, including government agencies, legislators, insurance companies, attorneys, institutional consumers, and individual consumers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Products Liability and the Reasonably Safe Product written by Alvin S. Weinstein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1978 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consumer Product Safety written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defective Products written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consumer Product Safety Act written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared for distribution at the Consumer product safety act program, September 1977.

Download or read book Principles of Products Liability written by Mark Geistfeld and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The varied doctrines, disputes, competing conceptions of liability and responsibility, and leading cases in this area are all discussed in this book. Unlike other books in this subject area, this title fully develops the underlying concepts and then repeatedly shows how the important doctrines can be understood in terms of a few basic principles. The book also provides insights into the processes of the common law, while locating products liability within tort law more generally. The book will be of interest both for the specialized study of products liability and the more general study of tort law.

Download or read book Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-09-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food safety regulators face a daunting task: crafting food safety performance standards and systems that continue in the tradition of using the best available science to protect the health of the American public, while working within an increasingly antiquated and fragmented regulatory framework. Current food safety standards have been set over a period of years and under diverse circumstances, based on a host of scientific, legal, and practical constraints. Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food lays the groundwork for creating new regulations that are consistent, reliable, and ensure the best protection for the health of American consumers. This book addresses the biggest concerns in food safetyâ€"including microbial disease surveillance plans, tools for establishing food safety criteria, and issues specific to meat, dairy, poultry, seafood, and produce. It provides a candid analysis of the problems with the current system, and outlines the major components of the task at hand: creating workable, streamlined food safety standards and practices.

Download or read book Safe Product Design in Law Management and Engineering written by Herman R. Heideklang and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: