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Post-Sale Obligations Of Product Manufacturers , John S. Allee

Fordham Urban Law Journal

In products liability law, a post-sale warning exists when the manufacturer learns after a product is distributed that it failed to warn of a danger that was knowable at the time of sale. However, a manufacturer has no point-of-sale duty to warn of dangers from unforeseeable misuses or alterations of its products. When a product develops a post-sale problem because of an improvement in the state of the art (e.g. because of the development of a more effective safety device), there is no requirement that a manufacturer seek out past customers and notify them of changes in the state of …