Product Liability

The way you market your product can turn an otherwise safely designed product into an unsafe product that causes injury and creates liability for the manufacturer and product seller.

Product liability litigation and product safety regulatory compliance are sometimes intertwined, and this can make a bad situation worse.

This article presents the legal issues around pre- and post-sale safety improvements in products and provides recommendations to document them.

When it comes to contracts, what terms and conditions are most important, and how can engineers support their company’s efforts to evaluate and minimize risks?

The risks of product liability sometime affect technological developments in hardware and software used to make products. They can stifle innovation and make some advancements seem too risky. How does the law view these products and what can be done to evaluate and reduce these risks.

This article will discuss whether there is a risk to overwarning or if it provides better protection than underwarning And, in light of these risks, what should a manufacturer do?

Assessing the liability between the raw material suppliers, component suppliers, finished product manufacturers, installers, and maintenance personnel is a very difficult legal proposition.

This article will discuss risk assessment techniques before and after sale and some of the legal and practical implications arising from their use.

Social media and the internet in general have given manufacturers a much greater ability to communicate with their consumers on a regular and frequent basis.

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