| Access to Complementary and Alternative Cancer Treatments |
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| Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to any form of therapy or treatment outside the conventional medical therapies for disease. Complementary medicine is used along with conventional medical therapies, while alternative medicine is used in place of conventional medicine.
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| Defective Consumer Products |
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| Most goods that you buy, except houses, motor vehicles, and large equipment, are consumer products. Consumer products are considered defective if they are improperly designed or manufactured or fail to warn the consumer of the product's dangers. Manufacturers of consumer products have a duty to sell safe products to consumers. If you are injured while using a defective consumer product, you may be able to recover damages from the manufacturer. This article covers the following consumer products: appliances, home products, clothing, lawn mowers, home power tools, and sports equipment. More... |
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| Jury Instructions in Products Liability Lawsuits Based on Negligence |
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| The judge gives the jury instructions after all the evidence is presented in a trial. The instructions tell the jury the law it must follow in reaching a verdict. The role of the jury is to consider all the evidence and determine what happened in the case. There are three separate theories of liability in products liability lawsuits: strict liability, negligence, and breach of warranty. Negligence is the lack of ordinary care. A manufacturer can be held liable for negligence if it fails to use due care in designing, manufacturing, or labeling its products. This article discusses jury instructions that are given in products liability lawsuits based on negligence. More... |
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| Identifying and Evaluating Injury Claims Involving Drugs or Medical Devices |
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| Drug product liability lawsuits are usually based on the drug company's failure to warn of known (or likely) dangers in using a prescription drug or medical device. The first element that must be shown in a drug product liability lawsuit is causation. Did the drug or medical device cause the injury? The second question presented is whether the drug company provided adequate warnings about its product.
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| Liability of Ammunition Manufacturers |
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| Gun manufacturers have been faced with product liability suits claiming that the manufacturers should be held strictly liable for producing certain guns, even if they worked exactly as intended, because the guns constituted defective, "unreasonably dangerous" products. What about the manufacturers of ammunition? Gun violence would not be possible without ammunition. Can ammunition manufacturers be held liable for producing unreasonably dangerous products?
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