According to Florida statutory law, a consumer product is considered defective when a manufacturer or seller does not comply with the federal or state codes, statutes, rules, regulations, or standards, there’s a connection between noncompliance and an injury,...
According to Florida law, and standard jury instruction 403.8, in order to prevail on a strict liability claim for failure to warn, a jury must determine a product is defective because “the foreseeable risks of harm from the product could have been reduced or...
According to Florida Statutory Law, the statute of limitations on product liability is four years, with a 10-year maximum period for an action involving a latent defect: WITHIN FOUR YEARS.— (a) An action founded on negligence. (b) An action relating to the...
According to Florida law, pedestrians do not always have the right of way: Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the...
According to Florida case law, a duty to warn about a defective consumer product like a pressure cooker arises whenever a reasonable person would want to be informed about the risk(s) in order to decide whether to expose himself or herself to it: We need not detail...
