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In the Spring 2008 Newsletter
The Failure to Warn
By William Hoffmann, Geneva, IL
In a product liability action, a potentially powerful cause
of action, often ignored by plaintiffs and their lawyers, is
the failure to warn. In 1998 the American Law Institute adopted
and promulgated the Restatement Third on Torts: Product Liability
in order to codify and update the divergent case law on product
liability.
Courts across the United States are now starting to adopt the
codification of the law in the Third Restatement instead of
the traditional Second Restatement of Torts. Additionally, the
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) recently adopted
a new standard in its Z353 series, Z353.6, regarding warnings
which must accompany a new product into the . . .
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HANDLING THE INTERNATIONAL
PRODUCT LIABILITY CASE
By Stuart R. Fraenkel
International product liability cases are very challenging,
complex and can be resonant of a crossover civil procedure/constitutional
law/torts/conflict of laws bar exam question. Whether the subject
matter of the action occurred in the United States or abroad,
it is incumbent upon the litigator to be very well versed, not
only with the applicable United States substantive and procedural
laws and treaties, but also with the applicable laws, treaties,
customs, practices and procedures of the international jurisdictions
which may be implicated. With the continued globalization and
outsourcing of product manufacturing, international product
liability cases will become more and more common.
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