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 ...

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 ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Most critics of the Hague tribunal in Serbia share the view of command responsibility as a form of strict liability. They argue that command responsibility entails responsibility of a superior for the ...

I think that a strict liability standard is coming to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement. A number of factors have caused me to come to this conclusion. While there may well be wide ...