Products Liability: The Expansion of Fraud, Negligence, and Strict Tort Liability

Strict versus Negligence Software Product Liability

The law of products liability in tort is designed to maintain a reasonable balance between the inevitable social costs and the benefits of innovative product technologies. Technological development must be supported not only for the best interests of the public but also the side effect namely product defect into one of the following: (1) manufacturing defect; failures to correctly implement saf...

Strict Liability versus Negligence in Indiana Harbor

In January of 1979, a railroad tank car containing the chemical acrylonitrile started leaking at a rail yard in south suburban Chicago. The chemical was manufactured by American Cyanamid Co (Cyanamid) in Louisiana. Cyanamid had leased the tank car, filled it with acrylonitrile, and delivered it to the Missouri Pacific Railroad for transport to the Chicago suburbs. The leak occurred while the ca...

The expansion of liability for medical accidents: from negligence to strict liability by way of informed consent.

Prenatal injuries caused by negligence prior to conception: an expansion of tort liability.

Who Pays for Tort Liability Claims? An Economic Analysis of the U.S. Tort Liability System