Selected Topics in Torts-Seminar: Product Liability

American Law of Products Liability 3d covers all aspects of products liability including particular products, verdicts, practice guidance by trial attorneys, forms, experts and more.

Law of Product Warranties is a comprehensive treatise that analyzes in detail all elements of a warranty problem, with emphasis on drafting techniques and litigation strategies.

Pattern Discovery: Products Liability 3d provides sample Pattern Interrogatories, Requests for Production and Admissions, Deposition Checklists, and Litigation Checklists for quick, complete, and economical discovery and fact-finding in products liability cases. Additional chapters are devoted to special case studies on Fire from Product, Drug Products, Toxic Torts, Ladders, and Firearms, and Defective Tires. Includes a Glossary of Medicolegal terms.

Owen and Davis on Products Liability analyzes the law of products liability.

For current volume, see "Restatement Volume--Appendix."

ALI CLE Course of Study Series.

Select "Products Liability and Safety" from the list of searchable topics. There is a wide range of materials included within the database, which highlights news, case decisions, and analytical tools.

Researchers will find several titles in the "Product Liability Law Library." Includes several treatises on the area of products liability law, such as Preparation of a Product Liability Case; the Product Liability Desk Reference; Product Warnings, Defects and Hazards; and Products Liability in New York.

Helpful for finding case law regarding products liability law in Michigan (volumes 26B and 27). Located on the first floor of the library in the Michigan section.

Michigan-specific encyclopedic set, includes a section on products liability. See volume 20. Also available electronically through WestlawNext.

See volume 31 (Torts), chapter 7 (Products Liability). This is a legal encyclopedic set specific to the law of Michigan. Also available online through Lexis Advance.

Product Liability law is briefly covered in the personal injury cases tab under sections 17.36 to 17.47.

Chapter 8 addresses product liability law in the state of Michigan. Principles covered include theories of liability, causation, defenses, evidentiary issues, expert issues, and mass torts/complex litigation.