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Newsroom: Logan On 2015'S Record Settlements, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Logan On 2015'S Record Settlements, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
Also available @ http://law.rwu.edu/story/logan-2015s-record-settlements
(Still) "Unsafe At Any Speed": Why Not Jail For Auto Executives?, Rena I. Steinzor
(Still) "Unsafe At Any Speed": Why Not Jail For Auto Executives?, Rena I. Steinzor
Faculty Scholarship
Americans can be forgiven for wondering what has gone so drastically wrong with the companies that sell automobiles. In 2014, 64 million, a number equivalent to one in five of the cars on the road, was recalled. Safety defects such as the lack of torque in ignition switches installed in GM compact cars like the Cobalt put motorists in the terrifying position of coping with a stalled engine and loss of power brakes while traveling at high speeds. GM had the audacity to classify this condition was not a safety defect, but instead was merely “inconvenient” for its customers. It …
Fixing Failure To Warn, Aaron D. Twerski, James A. Henderson Jr.
Fixing Failure To Warn, Aaron D. Twerski, James A. Henderson Jr.
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Design-defect and failure-to-warn cases share the same structural elements. Just as the defendant cannot defend a case premised on defective design without knowing the specifics of how the plaintiff would redesign the product to make it safer, so with regard to defective warnings the plaintiff cannot challenge the reasonableness of the defendant's marketing or whether better warnings would have saved the plaintiff from injury without knowing the specifics of the proposed warnings. No court would accept as adequate a statement by the plaintiff that she has a general idea for a reasonable alternative design (RAD), and no court should accept …