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Distributor
Retailer and all middlepersons (learned intermediary, R3d Torts)
Negligence
Negligence occurs when someone breaches some sort of duty to another person, causing some kind of injury to that person.
Express Warranties
Promises stated outright by the manufacturer or seller. They are usually in advertisements or on a product’s packaging.
Service bulletin
Allows dealers to repair the problem at no cost to the customer even if the warranty has expired. A service bulletin notifies the dealer of the problem and how to resolve it.
Summary Judgment
In a civil action, any party may make this procedural motion, after the Discovery phase, to dispose of the suit before trial has begun.
Inadequate Warning
Sometimes, a manufacturer doesn’t warn the user of a product’s hazards. Simply putting a warning in a little instruction book or label might not be enough. The warning must adequately inform the user of the hazards.
Design Defect
If the actual design of a product makes it unreasonably dangerous, then every product with that design is defective. For example, the poor design of the Ford Pinto is what made it defective, and because the design was common to all Pintos, they were all defective in design.
US CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, they monitor products and issue recalls
Advertising
The act of calling something to the attention of the public especially by paid announcement.
Manufacturing Defect
When one particular product out of many like products has a flaw that makes it unreasonably dangerous, it is said to have a manufacturing defect.
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