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Product Liability

Aug. 15, 2014

Liability for the life of your products

Senate Bill 1188, which was (thankfully) recently pulled from consideration, would have been a job killer, encouraging unwarranted class actions over product claims. By Katherine Pettibone, Jennifer Barrera and Chris Micheli


By Katherine Pettibone, Jennifer Barrera and Chris Micheli


This session, the state Legislature considered Senate Bill 1188, introduced by State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara - who recently pulled the bill from consideration. SB 1188 is a job killer because it would have encouraged unwarranted class actions over product claims after a warranty expired based upon an alleged omission of anything a consumer later claims was "material" to his or ...

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