Larry Coben, shareholder at Anapol Weiss. Courtesy photo Crashworthiness in the 2020s
Over the past 56 years, as vehicle design has matured, the responsibility to provide crashworthy vehicles has been extended to airplanes, buses, cars, vans, SUVs, pick-up trucks, motorcycles and over-the-road trucks. The scope of this duty extends to safety features that can mitigate injury in virtually every type of crash including frontal, rear-end, side and rollover collisions.
October 04, 2024 at 01:45 PM
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Products Liability
In 1968, the first reported appellate court decision was issued stating that vehicle manufacturers must design vehicles to provide protection to motorists in crashes. See Larson v. General Motors. This obligation is called the duty to design and build vehicles that are crashworthy.
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