Consumer Liability

Consumer liability, also known as product liability or strict product liability, is an area of civil law that provides remedies for consumers who are injured by a defective product. Under consumer liability, the company, supplier, and/or vendor of the defective product can be held liable for injuries caused to a consumer because of the defect.

Consumer liability primarily deals with warranties, manufacturing and design defects, and issues related to inadequate warnings.

A senior attorney in a firm will usually make well over a 100,000 dollars a year. This depends on how big the firm is that they are working in.

No. Courts award damages for tort claims. The Consumer Product Safety Commission deals with issues impacting large numbers of people, not individual issues.

A bench warrant will not issue in a civil action for failure to appear on a summons. At best, the party who fails to appear will have a judgment entered against him/her whether it was served by mail or not. Failure to answer a summons is simply tantamount to admitting the allegations in the complaint are true and judgment should be entered as requested.

Unauthorized persons on the property. Some states only enforce the law if it is posted, hence; the sign.

If it would be likely the hair was accidentally included in your order of fries, then it is not likely you may prove malicious intent to harm you. And I must agree that it is the cost of frivilous litigation that pushes costs up for products we all enjoy when their makers are forced to defend themselves against what the court more and more frequently deems "frivolous lawsuits", on which most reasonable judges frown harshly at best and vehemently oppose at worst. My Mom and Dad always told me, "That's more protein for free!" If in fact you ingest an impurity that does not kill you, it typically makes you stronger by strengthening your auto-immune system. We are indeed a nation of opportunists.

Yes. You could sue for emotional distress! You will need to show a physical component, though, such as an ulcer.

Sorry to say, but I work at a McDonalds and I would find that pretty stupid for someone to want to sue over. Just call the main office and complain, the will fix the problem and you will probably be owed free food or a refund for something or what not.

You could get a life and stop tying up the courts and tax payers money at the same time raising the cost of products over stupid litigation.

You could sue, but for what purpose? How have you been injured? By the way, fast food companies have test labs that allow them to tell if someone planted the foreign object. Proceed at your own risk.

I have a better idea...just go to the counter and tell them you got a hair in your fries. They will replace them on the spot.

Hey, Retards..... the question wasnt

*is it morally wrong and potentially detrimental to food costs of mcdonalds if i sue them for a hair in my fry?*

it was

*Can you file a lawsuit if you get a hair in your fries at McDonalds?*

stop wasting peoples time with answers that are off topic and are matter of opinion.

The is Yes.

how did i come to this conclusion? (fact) mcdonalds was sued for someone being burned with coffee that was too hot. (fact) unclean hair can carry bacteria therefore potentially harmful.

For more information contact a lawyer to discuss the proper route to take concerning what exactly you want and wether it is obtainable.

Yes they can!

Two things to know. First, if a person does not answer the summons and complaint in the time allotted, the court will let the plaintiff proceed with the case pretty much as if the defendant agrees with all the allegations and demands made in the complaint. The plaintiff will have to prove that service of the summons was made properly just so the court is sure that the failure to answer is not just because the defendant does not know about it. The court will schedule a proof hearing at which time the plaintiff will testify to the truthfulness of the allegations of the complaint. If the court is satisfied the allegations are true, it will enter a default judgment granting the plaintiff's demands as long as those demands are supported by the facts. Second, the court will not cut off a defendant from filing an answer just because the 20 day period has expired. All courts have rules that permit filing a late Answer provided there is some reasonable reason for the lateness. Plaintiffs's lawyers know that courts will allow late answers very liberally, so much so that they usually consent to a late answer without making the defendant ask the court to be allowed to file late.

Is a rules and regulation that guide the purchasing personnel on their daily job

no they are not

The Consumer Product Safety Commission.

"Unilaterally" literally means "one-sided." In politics, it's often used to refer to a country taking action on their own without the assistance or approval of other countries - taking action one-sidedly. The opposite is multilateral - many-sided.

Your State Court or Federal court have jurisdiction to hear the case of medical negligence.

A 'protective order' is the legal mechanism by which confidential information remains protected despite its disclosure to representatives of the other parties in an AD investigation. The most well-known system of this type is the US "administrative protective order" (APO).

Assuming you mean the valet damaged the vehicle, then yes, certainly. You can sue the employee, the valet company, the place that hired the valet company, and anybody else who might be standing around. You would have the burden of proving the damage was caused by the valet, that they had a duty to use reasonable care, that the damage was the result of failure to use reasonable care, and what the damage cost you to have repaired.

They will defend by saying there is no proof the damage wasn't already there, no proof they cause the damage, no proof they had any obligation of care, and so forth. If you're lucky, they may attempt to assert an illegal and unenforceable "waiver" or release of liability, often printed in small font on the back of a claim check. In many states, this will allow you to collect for triple damage and lawyers' fees because it is an "unfair and deceptive business practice" to assert an unenforceable waiver.

Currently no. There was one time when the SEC has fined PFS Investments Inc in 1998 for failing to provide adequate supervision and procedures on couple of representatives in Dearborn, Michigan who were selling investments not authorized by Primerica. That is the only lawsuit Primerica faced being in business since 1977.

In personam is a Latin term meaning "directed toward a particular person". In a lawsuit in which the case is against a specific individual, the court must have in personamjurisdiction over that person in order to try the case.

Yes you should respond promptly

That makes me wonder....Do you want to do this to someone?

Doug

If the question is what majors of degrees are needed to go into law, the answer is there is no one particular major that is necessary. Law schools will look at any degree and judge the applicant on the total record. The former idea that it had to be Political Science is no longer true. In fact, many schools went away from that and considered majors that were more analytical than PoliSci, like Economics, Accounting, etc. Even a degree in one of the sciences could be fine, if there were sufficient elective courses in areas other than just that science.

A request for admisssions is a pre-trial discovery method used to ascertain certain facts about a case. Even in disputed lawsuits, there will be some facts that everyone agrees are correct. Like in an auto accident case there might be a request that the other party admit that he is the owner of the car. If he is, there is no sense in denying it, because it can easily be proved. Requests for admissions have to be seriously considered because many courts provide monetary penalties for refusing to admit to facts that are readily ascertainable. In this example, if the party requesting the admissions has to spend money to subpoena motor vehicle records to prove ownership, the party refusing to admit might have to pay those costs.

The form is a summons to appear before the local California court as a defendant. The only documentation required is the actual summons.

"Too long" is pretty subjective. I should think it would have to be over a month, and so long as they are genuinely waiting on a part, there's not a lot to be done.