Defective Product
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Products Liability
Defective products are items that fail to perform as intended due to design flaws, manufacturing defects, or insufficient instructions or warnings. This article reviews the concept of defective products.
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should understand the following:
- How products-liability law allocates the costs of a consumer society.
- How warranty theory works in products liability, and what its limitations are.
- How negligence theory works, and what its problems are.
- How strict liability theory works, and what its limitations are.
- What efforts are made to reform products-liability law, and why.
Source: Andrew Hosmanek, https://pressbooks.uiowa.edu/introtolaw/chapter/products-liability/
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