Open and Obvious Rule of Products Liability

Open and Obvious Rule of Products Liability

Definition

Rule applied in many jurisdictions which holds that manufacturers are not liable for potentially dangerous features of products that are open and obvious to the average person, even when the danger could be easily eliminated by using a safer design or warning.

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