| Business 207 – Legal Responsibilities of Business – Perello |
Product liability is a highly specialized area of tort law of great interest to the business community. The general effect of product laws is to reverse the general requirement for the plaintiff to prove the defendant's liability – in product cases, the defendant (manufacturer/seller of a product) is effectively required to prove the safety of the product or that the plaintiff caused the injury. It's almost – but not quite – a case of guilty until proven innocent.
Materials: Read Miller & Jentz Chapter 17. These are the lecture slides and this is the downloadable file of the lecture, available during and after the TTh 12-2 class meeting.
Quizzes:
Quiz 32 will be available from 1600 on 1 December until 1400 on 2 December. It covers only the readings & slides for this lecture.
Quiz 33 will be available from 1600 on 3 December until 1400 on 4 December (NOTE THE SHORTENED TIME). This will cover all the material from this lecture.