Product Liability Reform: Government Standards Defense: SB 25 (1989).
Includes all the provisions of the 1977 product liability statute,
Includes all the provisions of the 1977 product liability statute, except the eight-year statute of repose, which was ruled unconstitutional. The bill includes a presumptive government standards defense for all products.
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