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Product Defect
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Schmitt Law Firm Blog
What Are The Types of Product Defects?
By Leo Avila
On behalf of Schmitt Law Firm, LLC posted in blog on Tuesday, July 21, 2020. Product defects fall into at least one of three categories: design, manufacturing and marketing. A marketing defect is…
China Law Insight
《消费品行业法律问题全书（四）——汽车产品缺陷纠纷浅析》
By King & Wood
2020年4月28日，国家发展和改革委员会等11个机关联合发布了《关于稳定和扩大汽车消费若干措施的通知》[1]，通过延后国六排放标准实施时间、延续新能源汽车购置补贴、促进汽车消费金融业务等五项措施来提高汽车消费、缓解近年来处于低迷的汽车市场。可以预见，随着国内疫情的逐渐好转，基于这一政策导向支持，汽车市场将迎来新的发展和增长。
Justice Pays
What Makes A Product Defective?
Story Highlights: If a defective product causes you an injury or damages your property (including the product itself), you may be entitled to compensation from the manufacturer, the seller, or…
Drug & Device Law
Guest Post – Summary Judgment for Defendant on All Counts in Absence of a Product Defect
By Bexis
Today's guest post is by Reed Smith's Jenn Eppensteiner. In it she discusses a recurring theme on the Blog - claimed product "defects" arising from nothing more than the failure…
GT Amsterdam Law Blog
Consumer Duty to Report a Lack of Conformity (Product Defect) Further Explained by Supreme Court in the Netherlands
Introduction A consumer who has purchased a nonconforming (defective) product must report the lack of conformity to the seller within two months of discovery of the deficiency. See Article 7:23,…
China Law Blog
China Product Defects, Lawsuits, Hostage Taking and Exit Ban: Please, Please, Please Read This!
As most of you already know, getting defective products from China manufacturers is almost always a possibility. In many cases, foreign buyers frustrated by bad product simply refuse to pay…
Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog
Insurer Must Pay To Defend Product Defect Claims From Date Of Product Installation
An Iowa federal court recently ruled that an insurer must pay its policyholder’s defense costs from the date of installation of the allegedly faulty product, even though the underlying suits…
Drug & Device Law
Medical Doctors Aren’t Jacks-of-all-Trades
We’ve all had cases where plaintiffs try to use their prescribers and treaters as their experts on everything from failure to warn and causation to design defect and company conduct.…
Product Liability Advocate
Revisiting the Post-Sale Duty to Warn
By Russ Vignali
A federal district court judge in New York City’s Southern District, applying Virginia law, recently invoked the concept of a manufacturer’s “post-sale duty to warn” to hold an automobile company…
Drug & Device Law
Middle District of Louisiana Gets it Wrong: A Different Product is not an “Alternative Design”
Over the Fourth of July weekend, we in the Philadelphia area learned that 120 of the “new, state-of-the-art” trains in our regional commuter rail system were being pulled out of…