As a small-business owner, you can protect yourself and your business from costly litigation by recognizing situations that expose you to tort liability. A tort is a civil wrong causing injury to ...

Michael Sena examines how manufacturers can navigate the intricacies of strict liability claims, the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA), and the shifting legal precedents in the circuit courts — ...

It is becoming almost impossible to avoid being exposed to multiple different chemicals on a daily basis. Companies use them to make their environments look and smell cleaner, to keep pests away, and ...

Working with an expert to support a product defect theory of liability is hard enough as it is. However, when the standard for strict liability is considered, properly supporting such a theory is even ...

Back in the dark ages of tort law a person injured by a defective product had no recourse absent privity of contract with the seller. That changed in the 1960s with the development of strict liability ...

Product liability comprises a number of laws and court rulings that apply to any business that makes or sells a product. Businesses that make or sell products are responsible for ensuring that those ...

For Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato, a drug overdose death is not accidental. It’s a homicide. And homicides, he says, should be treated as crime scenes with detectives searching for clues ...

In the week in which Scottish football was marred by an incident involving pyrotechnics at the St Mirren vs Celtic match, pressure is mounting on governing bodies to put fans in the dock by adopting ...

The government has released the draft SHANTI Rules, 2026, proposing a strict, no-fault liability framework for nuclear ...