A bulk supplier of prescription drugs, which was not a manufacturer, supplied drugs in bulk to a retailer. A customer of the retailer suffered severe bodily injury because of misleading and defective labelling by the retailer. The retailer was entitled to the benefit of the distributor’s insurance if any claim was ‘only with respect to
A New Jersey court found that Amazon is not liable for a defective laptop battery it sold that caused a home to burn down.
The plaintiff bought a laptop battery using an Amazon account which was sold by a Hong Kong company. She left the battery charging on her bed and the house burnt down
Notwithstanding the coming into operation of the Consumer Protection Act on 31 March 2011, judgments relying on the Act are few and far between. The High Court judgment in Halstead-Cleak, Derek Anthony v Eskom Holdings Limited is probably the first judgment dealing with product liability under the Act.
A cyclist came into contact with a
A forest fire claim has been instituted in the US federal court by an insurer against a motor manufacturer alleging that a defective off-road vehicle sparked a blaze that consumed 7 000 acres and destroyed 122 homes. The allegation is that the vehicle was defective because it had, to the knowledge of the manufacturers, a