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- Risk-utility_test abstract "In legal disputes regarding product liability, a risk-utility test is used to determine whether a product's design or warning is defective, thereby making the manufacturer liable for injuries caused by its product.The manufacturer is held liable under the risk-utility test if the probability of injury times the gravity of injury under the current product design is more than the cost of an alternative reasonable design plus the diminished utility resulting from modifying the design. More simply, the court considers if the economic costs (determined from likely lawsuits) are higher than the cost of changing the product design (ex: installing a plastic guard) plus the loss of use of the product (ex: the new guard makes it harder to use the product). Generally, the simplest way to think of the risk-utility test is the Hand Formula applied to products.The Third Restatement of the Law, Torts: Products Liability §2(b) favors the risk-utility test over the Second Restatement of the Law, Torts §402(a), which favored the Consumer expectations test. §2(b) states, in part, \"A product is defective when, at the time of sale or distribution...is defective in design. A product is defective in design when the foreseeable risks of harm posed by the product could have been reduced or avoided by the adoption of a reasonable alternative design by the seller or other distributor, or a predecessor in the commercial chain of distribution, and the omission of the alternative design renders the product not reasonably safe.\"".
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- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLink Calculus_of_negligence.
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLink Category:Legal_tests.
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tort_law.
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLink Consumer_expectations_test.
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLink Economy.
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLink Law.
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLink Lawsuit.
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLink Legal_liability.
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLink Product_liability.
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLinkText "Risk-utility test".
- Risk-utility_test wikiPageWikiLinkText "risk-utility test".
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- Risk-utility_test subject Category:Legal_tests.
- Risk-utility_test subject Category:Tort_law.
- Risk-utility_test comment "In legal disputes regarding product liability, a risk-utility test is used to determine whether a product's design or warning is defective, thereby making the manufacturer liable for injuries caused by its product.The manufacturer is held liable under the risk-utility test if the probability of injury times the gravity of injury under the current product design is more than the cost of an alternative reasonable design plus the diminished utility resulting from modifying the design.".
- Risk-utility_test label "Risk-utility test".
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- Risk-utility_test sameAs Q7336211.
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- Risk-utility_test isPrimaryTopicOf Risk-utility_test.