Although the argument in Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Bartlett took the Court to common ground – essentially a replay of last year’s decision in PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing — the Justices seemed far from ...
As a small-business owner, you can protect yourself and your business from costly litigation by recognizing situations that expose you to tort liability. A tort is a civil wrong causing injury to ...
Back in the dark ages of tort law a person injured by a defective product had no recourse absent privity of contract with the seller. That changed in the 1960s with the development of strict liability ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Inherently Risky But Socially Beneficial: PA Court Will Rule On Strict Liability For Medical Devices
Because it is impossible to design a prescription drug that provides the desired health benefits with zero risk of harm, courts have long held that manufacturers of prescription drugs are not strictly ...
“Out of fact comes law,” said the Romans. And out of 50,000 U.S. auto deaths a year are coming new legal pressures on U.S. auto manufacturers. Most important is “strict liability” — a doctrine holding ...
Professor Gabriel Weil will discuss the role that tort law can play in compelling AI companies to internalize the risks ...
In tort law, generally speaking, the law only holds a person responsible for his or her own actions. Restatement (Second) of Torts §315. The reason for this is clear: If the purpose of tort law is to ...
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