Product Liability: Law and Insurance
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PRODUCT SAFETY REGULATION
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The rules and function of product safety law are separate and distinct from product liability law. Product liability law covers the civil law of payment of compensation by a manufacturer or supplier to a person who is injured by the former’s negligence or defective product. Product safety law is the name now given to a growing body of rules which regulate the placing of unsafe products on the market and their removal from the market, backed by criminal sanctions.