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CPSC staff collects hospital patient injury information
They collect data from each NEISS hospital for every emergency visit involving an injury associated with consumer products. From this sample, the total number of product-related injuries treated in hospital emergency rooms nationwide can be estimated.
Product Liability Cases Involving SUV ‘s in Kentucky
Pickup and SUV occupants
279
precentage
30
Total motor vehicle deaths
928
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Highway Loss Data I
The manufacturer of a product has the given responsibility
of making their product with care. Manufacturers provide the
assurance that a purchaser or user of the product suffer a personal injury when using the product as intended
by the manufacturer.
Kentucky Verdicts and Settlements
Kentucky mother killed in car/truck accident receives multiple damages award
(8/11/2003)
Melissa Congleton, a married mother of two who worked at the Henry County John Deere distributor, was killed instantly when a 5.5 ton roll of steel coil slid off of a truck on U.S. Highway 421 and hit her car. The Plaintiff's claimed that the company
The products you purchase from Kentucky retail stores, wholesalers,
supermarkets, or specialty outlets are manufactured with an implicit
guarantee that the item is not defective and that the purchaser
of the item come to no harm if the manufactured product
is used in its intended manner.
Products with a dangerously defective
potential rate are a threat to your safety and well-being. An individual
who has been loaned or given a defective or negligent product can
file product liability claims and take action against those responsible
for the defective or dangerous product.
Among the many common consumer products that are recalled are:
PRODUCT LIABILITY
Audio, RM, 8 Kbps, 4:09, 7/9/1998
NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that Senate Republican leaders have withdrawn a product liability bill that was being blocked by Democrats. The measure would have limited the liability of wholesalers and retailers of products that cause harm. It also would have limited punitive damages against companies with fewer than 25 employees or with annual revenues of less than five million dollars. The measure, which has been debated in various forms for years, was opposed by trial lawyers and consumer group Source: National Public Radio
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Definition:
A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
Punitive Damages
Definition:
This term refers to damages awarded to a plaintiff over and above compensatory damages, designed to punish the defendant for particularly outrageous and malicious conduct, and to serve as a deterrent to others.
Seller
Definition:
A person who sells or contracts to sell goods. UCC 2-103(1)(d)
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Kentucky Occupants of SUVs and pickups 
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