首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
It’s a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could
It’s a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could
admin
2010-08-21
20
问题
It’s a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could burn down the house. Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles. Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers’ misfortunes.
Feeling threatened, companies responded by writing ever-longer warning labels, trying to anticipate every possible accident. Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long that warn, among other things, that you might — surprise! — fall off. The label on a child’s batman cape cautions that toy "does not enable user to fly".
While warnings are often appropriate and necessary — the dangers of drug interactions, for instance — and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn’t clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. About 50 percent of the companies lose when injured customers take them to court.
Now the tide appears to be turning. As personal injury claims continue as before, some courts are beginning to side with defendants, especially in cases where a warning label probably wouldn’t have changed anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sportswear in Illinois, successfully fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet. "We’re really sorry he has become paralyzed, but helmets aren’t designed to prevent those kinds of injuries," says Nimmons. The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete’s injury. At the same time, the American Law Institute — a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight — issued new guidelines stating that companies need not warn customers of various dangers or bombard (轰炸) them with a lengthy list of possible ones. "Important information can get buries in a sea of trivialities." says a law professor at Comell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines. "The information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of customers and not as protection against legal liability."
Manufacturers mentioned in the passage were obliged to make the best of warning labels sb as to ______ .
选项
答案
avoid legal liability
解析
参见第二段第一句:日益增多的赔偿案令生产商备感威胁,他们便把商品标签上的警告写得很长,预计可能发生的任何一种意外,以逃避法律责任。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/4YFMFFFM
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Healreadyknowshowtoplay.B、Hedoesn’tliketoplaygames.C、Hedoesn’thaveapartner.D、Hedoesn’thaveenoughfreetime
SixmonthsafterImetayoungman,heexpressedtomehowmuchhelovedme.Beingsixteenyearsold,Ithoughtittobeveryfl
Inaddition,althoughthose______(有更多财经知识)tendtosavemoreandmakehigherreturnsontheirlong-terminvestments,thestreng
A、Shelovesherfamily.B、Shehatespolitics.C、Menareinterestedofthat.D、ShethinksthatisnotherbusinessD从整篇对话看,A,B,C三
IBMresearchersareattemptingtowarmuphuman-computerrelationships.Forexample,IBM,InternationalBusinessMachines,hasb
Dogswerefirstdomesticatedfromwolvesatleast17,000yearsago,butperhapsasearlyas150,000yearsagobaseduponrecent
RichNorth,HungrySouthAfewyearsago,therichworld’sworryabouteconomicinteractionwithdevelopingcountrieswasth
Georgejustturnedfiftylastweek.He’sa【B1】______businessman,whoownsalargeprintingcompany.Helivesinabeautifulhom
Intheinterestoflightnessofweight,everythingyoucarryinyourpackshouldserveasmanypurposesaspossible.Clothingan
A、Apharmacist.B、Asalesman.C、Alibrarian.D、Adoctor.A人物身份推断题根据关键词prescription和vitamins可以推断布朗先生是一名药剂师。
随机试题
用外人的眼光来看,微软公司似乎是在以闪电般的速度发展着。然而,从内部来看,对发展太缓慢的指责与日俱增。微软公司有3000名员工,生产180多种不同的产品,至少有5个管理层。公司的员工开始抱怨文案主义和决策迟缓的问题。日益明显的官僚化倾向甚至使公司失去了几个
立方体抗压强度的含义包括()。
水泥混凝土面层施工应严格控制水灰比,最大水灰比不应大于( )。
融资租入的固定资产,因所有权不属于企业,所以不计提折旧。()
得出学习即强化的观点的实验是()。
以下关于宏操作QuitAccess的叙述中,正确的是()。
请在“考试项目”菜单上选择“字处理软件使用”菜单项,完成以下内容。1.在指定文件夹下打开文档WTl2.DOC,其内容如下。[文档开始]美国的信息工业信息技术及信息工业动摇了传统商业交易的基础,改变了人们的消费方式,相继问世的
Afeelingoftirednessalmost______thesoldierondutyandhehadtostrugglehardtokeepawake.
Whatdoyoudoondayswhentheairdoesn’tsmellright?Soon,youmightjustcheckGoogleMaps.GooglehasteamedupwithS
A、Theplayersusearoundballinthegame.B、Theplayerscannotpasstheballwiththeirhands.C、Thegameisarugbygame.D、T
最新回复
(
0
)