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A Product Safety Agenda For The 1990s, Teresa M. Schwartz Sep 1988

A Product Safety Agenda For The 1990s, Teresa M. Schwartz

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Consumer Protection - The Unfair Trade Practices Act And The Insurance Code: Does Per Se Necessarily Preempt? - Pearce V. American Defender Life Insurance Co., Cindy C. Heenan Jan 1988

Consumer Protection - The Unfair Trade Practices Act And The Insurance Code: Does Per Se Necessarily Preempt? - Pearce V. American Defender Life Insurance Co., Cindy C. Heenan

Campbell Law Review

This Note will address two main issues. The first issue is whether a violation of the Insurance Code regulatory section entitled "Unfair Trade Practices" should be a per se unfair trade practice under the UTPA. The second is whether the Insurance Code preempts the UTPA in defining unfair insurance practices.


Automatic Consumer Protection Recovery Act For Lack Of Informed Consent: Quimby V. Fine, Dr. Carroll Rusk, Jr. Jan 1988

Automatic Consumer Protection Recovery Act For Lack Of Informed Consent: Quimby V. Fine, Dr. Carroll Rusk, Jr.

Seattle University Law Review

This Note will demonstrate the need to refine the entrepreneurial aspects test as it applies to medical professionals and suggest a rationale for identifying those lack-of-informed-consent actions to which the Consumer Protection Act rightfully applies. Specifically, this Note seeks to: 1) demonstrate that satisfaction of the statutory elements of a lack-of-informed-consent claim necessarily satisfies the five prongs of the Hangman private dispute test; 2) show that the additional requirement that the lack of informed consent "relate to the entrepreneurial aspects of the medical practice" has not been definitively interpreted, and that it may be unintelligible in context; 3) identify the …