ASHFORD BUS 670 Week 2 DQ 2 and Week 2 Negligent Tort
ASHFORD BUS 670 Week 2 DQ 2 Product Liability
After viewing the Chinese Imports & Food Safety Video, consider whether U.S. retailers that utilize products or raw ingredients that are imported from China and that are poorly regulated should be liable in tort for injuries to consumers who are harmed by those products. Answer parts 1 and 2 of the following question:
1. Answer part a or part b
a. If U.S. companies should not be liable, then they could be legally exempt from tort liability. Discuss the consequences of such a policy to U.S. consumers.
b. If the U.S. companies should be liable, then those companies would not be legally exempt from tort liability. Discuss the consequences of such a policy to U.S. businesses.
2. Regardless of your response to part 1 of this question, assume that U.S. retailers do have legal liability for defective products. What steps could U.S. retailers and manufacturers take, when using products imported from China that would minimize their liability exposure? For example, they could warn consumers about the potential, though speculative, dangers when using products comprised of poorly regulated ingredients or components. Given your strategy, what challenges would exist for U.S. businesses that implemented your strategy?
Guided Response:
Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings in a substantive manner. Some ways to do this include the following, though you may choose a different approach, providing your response is substantive:
Discuss the challenges that would exist if your employer (or a fictitious employer) were to adopt your classmate’s strategy.
ASHFORD BUS 670 Week 2 Negligent Tort
Negligent Tort. The paper must be four to five pages, excluding the title page and references page(s), and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Address all of the following parts of this assignment:
1. Visit the Consumer Product Safety Division website. Click on “Consumer Safety,” and then click on “Recalls.” Choose one product that has been recalled.
a. Identify the product subject to recall.
b. Determine whether the manufacturer would be liable in negligence if the product had not been recalled and had caused harm to a consumer.
c. At a minimum, your analysis must discuss the concepts of duty of care, standard of care, breach of the duty of care, actual causation, proximate causation, actual injury, and defenses to negligence.
2. Identify and discuss a relevant consumer protection statute identified under “Consumer Protection” in Chapter 8 of your text in conjunction with the product recall that you have identified.
According the Consumer Product Safety Division children’s pajama was recalled. These pajamas were made by Bowden due to violation of Federal Flammability Standards they had to be recall. The recall was from pajamas made from July 21, of 2012 to September 17, of 2012 the cost of the pajamas was 48.00 per set. There were no injuries reported and one thousand one hundred and thirty units were sold to the public. The manufacturer in Turkey fail to meet the Federal Flammability Standards for children sleep wear posing a threat or risk of burn injuries(Consumer Product Safety Division) .