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The CPSC warns consumers about the hazard of exposure to consumer products containing asbestos
These products include: Asbestos paper and millboard,Asbestos-cement sheet,Dry-mix asbestos furnace or boiler cement,Asbestos wood/coal stove door gaskets,Asbestos laboratory gloves and pads,Asbestos stove mats and iron rests,Central hot-air furnace duct connectors containing asbestos,Bulk asbestos fibers,Some of these products still are for sale or may be in consumers' homes. Handling these products may release asbestos fibers; breathing asbestos fibers is known to cause cancer.
Product Liability Cases Involving SUV ‘s in Virginia
Pickup and SUV occupants
224
precentage
24
Total motor vehicle deaths
943
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Highway Loss Data I
The manufacturer of a product has the given responsibility
of making their product with care. Manufacturers provide the
assurance that a purchaser or user of the product suffer a personal injury when using the product as intended
by the manufacturer.
Virginia Verdicts and Settlements
Virginia family awarded $2 million in hit and run death of daughter
(10/8/2004)
A Loudoun County Circuit Court jury yesterday ordered a former Sterling lawyer who struck and killed a 15-year-old girl with her Mercedes on a Fairfax County highway to pay more than $2 million in damages to the victim's family. The jury ordered Jane
The products you purchase from Virginia retail stores, wholesalers,
supermarkets, or specialty outlets are manufactured with an implicit
guarantee that the item is not defective and that the purchaser
of the item come to no harm if the manufactured product
is used in its intended manner.
Products with a dangerously defective
potential rate are a threat to your safety and well-being. An individual
who has been loaned or given a defective or negligent product can
file product liability claims and take action against those responsible
for the defective or dangerous product.
Among the many common consumer products that are recalled are:
PRODUCT LIABILITY
Audio, RM, 8 Kbps, 4:09, 7/9/1998
NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that Senate Republican leaders have withdrawn a product liability bill that was being blocked by Democrats. The measure would have limited the liability of wholesalers and retailers of products that cause harm. It also would have limited punitive damages against companies with fewer than 25 employees or with annual revenues of less than five million dollars. The measure, which has been debated in various forms for years, was opposed by trial lawyers and consumer group Source: National Public Radio
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PRODUCT LIABILITY REFORM ACT (Senate - July 09, 1998) ... The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Hutchinson). The Senator from West Virginia. Mr. ROCKEFELLER. ..
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Product Sellers, Rentors, And Lessors
Liability Rules Applicable to Product Sellers, Renters, and Lessors.Product sellers, rentors, and lessors will be liable only for their own failure... Read more >
Definition:
Manufacturers not only have a duty to warn, but they may also have to recall a defective product that is already on store shelves. Federal law makes it mandatory to recall certain products, like cars and toys.
Advertising
Definition:
The act of calling something to the attention of the public especially by paid announcement.
Inadequate Warning
Definition:
Sometimes, a manufacturer doesn’t warn the user of a product’s hazards. Simply putting a warning in a little instruction book or label might not be enough. The warning must adequately inform the user of the hazards.
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