Lawyer's role in product safety
Los Angeles-based consumer attorney, William A. "Bill" Daniels hosts http://billdanielsblog.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/07/so-great-to-see.html and quotes an interesting article that points out the obvious. Who do we have to safeguard our rights against unreasonable dangerous products? Government bureaucrats? Ultimately, we must rely upon the free enterprise system supported by our open courts. As long as manufacturers and promoters of products for us and our families know that plaintiffs’ attorneys are willing to aggressively put their representations of safety to the test, we will have a chance for reasonable product safety research and development. The following is an excerpt from the article on Daniel’s site. I recommend that you click on his blog to read the rest.
By Jeffrey Pfeffer, Business 2.0 Magazine columnist
July 9 2007: 6:21 AM EDT
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Decades after Tylenol bottles were tampered with and Ford Pintos exploded, you'd think that product-safety panics would be nearing extinction.
No such luck. Consider just the past few months: Pet food laced with poison killed more than a dozen dogs and cats. Toothpaste shipped from China to Latin America turned out to be tainted with a potentially fatal thickening agent. And the FDA issued yet another recall for defective defibrillators, bringing the total number of heart devices that need to be replaced to nearly 200,000.
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