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Torts--Strict Liability--A Hospital Is Strictly Liable For Transfusions Of Hepatitis-Infected Blood--Cunningham V. Macneal Memorial Hospital, Michigan Law Review
Torts--Strict Liability--A Hospital Is Strictly Liable For Transfusions Of Hepatitis-Infected Blood--Cunningham V. Macneal Memorial Hospital, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
This Recent Development will briefly trace the development of hospital liability for transfusions of hepatitis-infected blood and will analyze both the impact of Cunningham on that area of the law and the correctness of the Cunningham decision.
Automotive "Crashworthiness:" An Untenable Doctrine, Stephen J. Werber
Automotive "Crashworthiness:" An Untenable Doctrine, Stephen J. Werber
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
It is the purpose of this article to review the decisional law of automobile crashworthiness and to place it in the context of important policy considerations which justify such judicial determinations. It will be shown that the great majority of these decisions are entirely consistent with the doctine of "strict tort liability" as enunciated in section 402A of the Restatement of Torts, Second; that the questions sought to be submitted to juries in these cases are properly the subject of highly technical and complex legislative and administrative action on both a state and federal level; and that the few decisions …