An entity may be strictly liable for defective products sold by third parties on the entity’s online marketplace. Under the stream of commerce approach, an entity’s participatory connection, for its personal profit or benefit, with the injury-producing product and with enterprise that created consumer demand for and reliance upon the product, calls for imposition of strict liability.
Cases of Interest
A trier of fact may properly consider any uncompensated or potential harm in awarded punitive damages.
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Identity of attorney’s non-testifying expert was not entitled to absolute work product protection because it would not reveal attorney’s impressions, conclusions, opinions, or legal research or theories.
The prevailing wage protections for public works are expanded to cover not only workers engaged in construction-related activities, as was historically the case, but also belt sorters at a recycling facility.
A commercial lessor is liable to its tenants for injuries sustained due to uninsulated, high-voltage power lines because such power lines are not open and obvious dangers; the Privette doctrine does not insulate landowners from liability.