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RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Product liability?



In the US, you can, and people do, file suit for anything regardless of common law, contracts, or common sense.  Pre-nuptual agreements can be challenged.  Contractual agreements can be challenged.  Last will and testaments can be challenged.  We've got state governments suing tobacoo companies for smoke related illnesses even though every package carries a mandatory warning that smoking IS dangerous to your health.  We've got people who sue McDonalds because they carelessly spill coffee on themselves and file claim that the coffee was too hot.  Anna Nicole had a written will from her former 80(something) year old hubby that was challenged by other blood relatives.
 
I think Ray's point was well taken for those of us in the US.  You should seriously consider any ramifications that might occur if you sell or even give away your sub, and it fails to perform flawlessly.  It's not because the person you sell it to, or their family, has a valid claim against you that will stand up in court.  It's the fact that it will cost you a lot of money to respond to that challenge and have a court (or jury) determine that the claim was invalid.  Ray appears unwilling to put himself in a position that would even require him to respond to such a challenge.  I'm there as well.  But others may be willing to take that risk.