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Role Of Misuse In Products Liability Litigation, David A. Fischer
Role Of Misuse In Products Liability Litigation, David A. Fischer
Faculty Publications
Misuse is puzzling. Sometimes it cuts off liability and sometimes it does not, but courts have failed to clarify exactly what sort of conduct qualifies as the type of misuse that bars recovery. Generally speaking misuse takes two forms, abnormal use and mishandling. Abnormal use comes about when a product is used for an improper purpose; mishandling comes about when a product is used for a proper purpose but in an improper manner. Under this definition defendants can claim that virtually any unusual handling or use of a product constitutes misuse. Yet courts will not always accept this characterization. They …
Recovery For Negligent Infliction Of Emotional Distress: Changing The Impact Rule In Indiana, David B. Millard
Recovery For Negligent Infliction Of Emotional Distress: Changing The Impact Rule In Indiana, David B. Millard
Indiana Law Journal
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Products Liability--Functionally Imposed Strict Liability, David A. Fischer
Products Liability--Functionally Imposed Strict Liability, David A. Fischer
Faculty Publications
Many manufacturers and insurance companies claim that a products liability crisis exists. This is evidenced by soaring products liability insurance rates. They express the fear that as insurance becomes unavailable or prohibitively expensive, useful products will be withheld from the market and some manufacturers may even be forced out of business. Such critics of the tort system are calling for modifications of the common law in order to give greater protection to manufacturers. A more drastic approach, vigorously championed by Professor Jeffrey O'Connell, calls for total or partial abolition of the tort system and substitution with various forms of no-fault …
Probability Theory Meets Res Ipsa Loquitor, David H. Kaye
Probability Theory Meets Res Ipsa Loquitor, David H. Kaye
Journal Articles
Day in and day out, attorneys, judges, and jurors must estimate probabilities. To be sure, we rarely quantify such estimates of probability and almost never adopt the terminology and mathematics of probability theory to resolve matters. Nevertheless, the mathematical theory of probability can be applied to legal problems in various ways. This article uses probability theory normatively in an effort to clarify one aspect of the famous tort doctrine known as res ipsa loquitur. While not urging that jurors be instructed in probability theory or be equipped with microprocessors, it does seek an accurate statement of the res ipsa doctrine …
Accident, Mistake, And Rules Of Liability In The Fourteenth-Century Law Of Torts, Morris S. Arnold
Accident, Mistake, And Rules Of Liability In The Fourteenth-Century Law Of Torts, Morris S. Arnold
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Negligence - Recovery For Negligently Inflicted Mental Distress Permitted To Mother Who Witnessed The Violent Death Of Her Child Even Though The Mother Was Outside Zone Of Danger, Bruce A. Issadore
Villanova Law Review
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