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The Plaintiffs Keep Getting Richer, The Manufacturers Just Stay Poor: Design Defect Litigation In Georgia Post-Banks, Davis S. Popper

Georgia Law Review

How much proof of a reasonable alternative design is necessary to survive a claim for defective design and when should proof of a reasonable alternative design be denied as irrelevant to claims pertaining to products that exhibit open and obvious dangers? Design defect litigation is particularly important because it involves claims that take entire product lines out of the market and cost manufacturers exorbitant losses and expose them to steep damages. In these cases, plaintiffs often suffer life- changing injuries or death. In this Note, I provide a history of design defect litigation in the United States. In particular,I focus …