As a small-business owner, you can protect yourself and your business from costly litigation by recognizing situations that expose you to tort liability. A tort is a civil wrong causing injury to ...

It is becoming almost impossible to avoid being exposed to multiple different chemicals on a daily basis. Companies use them to make their environments look and smell cleaner, to keep pests away, and ...

For at least two decades, Pennsylvania law has recognized an exemption from strict liability for prescription drug manufacturers based on the state Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Restatement ...

Back in the dark ages of tort law a person injured by a defective product had no recourse absent privity of contract with the seller. That changed in the 1960s with the development of strict liability ...

For Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato, a drug overdose death is not accidental. It’s a homicide. And homicides, he says, should be treated as crime scenes with detectives searching for clues ...

Pennsylvania Strict Liability: Duty to Nonusers Within the Zone of Danger Strict liability in tort is a principled doctrine that recognizes the obligation of product manufacturers and sellers to only ...