HB617 Alabama 2013 Session

Under existing law, a product liability action means any action brought by a natural person for personal injury, death, or property damage caused by the manufacture, construction, design, formula, preparation, assembly, installation, testing, warnings, instructions, marketing, packaging, or labeling of a manufactured product when such action is based upon negligence, innocent or negligent misrepresentation, the manufacturer's liability doctrine, the Alabama extended manufacturer's liability doctrine as it exists or is hereafter construed or modified, breach of any implied warranty, or breach of any oral express warranty and no other. A product liability action does not include an action for contribution or indemnity

This bill would prohibit a product liability action for relief against the manufacturers of a product unless the manufacturer was the manufacturer of the specific product

To amend Section 6-5-521 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to product liability; to prohibit a product liability action for relief against the manufacturers of a product unless the manufacturer was the manufacturer of the specific product.