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unusual facts about product liability



Liability for Defective Products Act 1991

The Liability for Defective Products Act 1991 is an Act of the Oireachtas that augmented Irish law on product liability formerly based solely on negligence.


see also

Adam Penenberg

His non-fiction book Tragic Indifference: One Man's Battle With the Auto Industry Over the Dangers of SUVs which deals with the biggest product liability case in history, the Ford and Firestone controversy, was published in 2003 and is currently being made into a movie.

ARV Super2

After breaking the world land speed record in 1983, the UK entrepreneur Richard Noble, spotted a gap in the market for a low-cost light two-seat trainer, after expensive product-liability lawsuits in the United States had temporarily driven the major American general aviation manufacturers to abandon production of such aircraft.

Hot Coffee

Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, a 1994 product liability lawsuit involving spilt hot coffee

Product liability in the Republic of Ireland

Irish law on product liability was for most of its history based solely on negligence.