Product Liability: Law and Insurance

Merchant Shipping Act 1995: An Annotated Guide is written in a clear and accessible style, the authors guide you chronologically through each of the Act’s 313 sections. They include expert commentary and analysis to assist your understanding and interpretation of the Act.

Product Description

Use this book to see how product liability legislation works in the UK and how redress can be found for your clients under the legislation

* Packed with case reference, legal insight and professional and practical experience to allow you to approach such cases confidently

* An essential book for any lawyer dealing with product liability cases

This book has been written to provide product liability lawyers with a sign-posted route through the legislation which developed out of the EC Directive on Liability for Defective Products 1985, as passed into English Law by the Consumer Protection Act 1987, Part 1. It is an excellent and practical asset for your firm.

Formerly available as a looseleaf, Product Liability: Law & Insurance is now a highly practical reference work that covers all facets of product liability. It looks at practical applications of the law and gives expert advice on how to operate in given situations; offering guidelines on how to avoid product liability problems and what to do in practice if things do go wrong.

Written by a team of leading experts, Product Liability: Law & Insurance is an essential guide for all legal and insurance practitioners involved with product liability. You will find that it is a thoroughly practical - rather than arcane - treatise on product liability law in day to day practice.

The book offers you perspectives on the law’s implications across a broad range of industrial and service applications, including insurance, manufacturing and consumer perspectives. And it covers the increasingly important issues of forum, jurisdiction and choice of law. Which means that you have a source of information that will help you to grasp the tenets of your client’s case easily and be able to know which track to take when furthering the case on their behalf.

Comprehensive in scope, just some of the topics covered include:

* Product liability insurance policy wordings and their interpretation by the courts

* The role and obligations of the insurance intermediary

* The regulations regime for product safety

* Product risk management

* Environmental liabilities in respect of products

* The consumer perspective on the liability regime

* Group product actions

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