Products liability law
By: Mark A. Geistfeld
Series: Aspen casebook series
Publisher: Wolter Kluwer Law & Business/Aspen Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781454806226
Subjects: Cases; Products liability
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The big picture; title: Doctrinal foundations of strict products liability; title: The substantive basis of strict products liability; title: Construction or manufacturing defects; title: Design defects; title: Warning defects; title: The relation between warnings and product design; title: Medical products and the exemption of unavoidably; title: Unsafe products from strict products liability; title: Products liability in the age of statutes; title: Factual causation; title: Scope of liability : proximate cause; title: Damages and the scope of liability as defined by the type of injury; title: Defenses based on consumer conduct; title: The scope of strict products liability as defined by the nature of the transaction; title: Bystander liability; title: Comparative products liability.