Featuring chapters from Uría Menéndez, Deneys Reitz Inc and Minter Ellison, this first edition covers key issues that can arise in relation to product regulation, recall, liability and insurance coverage in a number of jurisdictions in Europe, North America, South America and Asia.

This book takes a look at fully automated, autonomous vehicles and discusses many open questions: How can autonomous vehicles be integrated into the current transportation system with diverse users and human drivers? Where do automated vehicles fall under current legal frameworks? What risks are associated with automation and how will society respond to these risks? How will the marketplace react to automated vehicles and what changes may be necessary for companies? Experts from Germany and the United States define key societal, engineering, and mobility issues related to the automation of vehicles. They discuss the decisions programmers of automated vehicles must make to enable vehicles to perceive their environment, interact with other road users, and choose actions that may have ethical consequences. The authors further identify expectations and concerns that will form the basis for individual and societal acceptance of autonomous driving. While the safety benefits of such vehicles are tremendous, the authors demonstrate that these benefits will only be achieved if vehicles have an appropriate safety concept at the heart of their design. Realizing the potential of automated vehicles to reorganize traffic and transform mobility of people and goods requires similar care in the design of vehicles and networks. By covering all of these topics, the book aims to provide a current, comprehensive, and scientifically sound treatment of the emerging field of “autonomous driving".

Originally published in 2001, Product Liability: Law & Insurance is a highly partical reference work that covers all facets of product liability. It looks at partical applications of the law and gives expert advice on how to operate in given situations; offering guidelines on how to avoid product liability problems and what to do in practice if things do go wrong.

The recall of a product is an expensive and traumatic incident. Product liability insurance only provides protection against financial losses due to claims and lawsuits. It normally does not protect against the high costs of handling product recalls. To keep costs down, manufacturers must be ready with a recall plan. The Product Recall Planning Guide will help you plan your recall process. Methodologies for product liability prevention are also included.

This title offers lawyers the necessary practical information relating to liabilities in connection with products in the major jurisdictions where the law of product liability is most fully developed and therefore influential worldwide.

Liability insurance is considered a neglected branch of the insurance in India, unless it is mandatory under any law or contract. The basic coverage in each liability insurances are death, bodily injury or property damage or financial loss. In our country, the literature related to liability insurance either not available or limited from the insurers who share the information at the time of buying such insurances. Normally no one has the knowledge other than the product purchased by him. In this book it is attempted to explain the technical terminology with examples to make it easily understandable to all. About 15 liability insurance products are discussed under Statutory and Civil liability. The products are Public Liability Act 1991, Employees Compensation Act 1923, Third party Liability under Motor Vehicle Act 1989 and Clinical Trial Policy under Drugs Control Act and under civil liability i.e. Public liability (Industrial/Non Industrial risk), Product liability, Directors and Officers liability, Commercial General Liability, Kidnap, Ransom and Hijacking Liability, Cyber Liability, Product contamination liability, Carrier Legal Liability, Error and Omission Liability, Professional liability. At the end of each chapter the policy wordings is annexed. We are sure that no such book is available in the market till date.

"Gitty Up" shouted the driver, as he encouraged the laboring horses to pull the ladened "prairie schooner" faster westward across the prairie. In the "prairie schooners" the people were excited and anxious to reach the vast prairie of Nebraska. They wanted to rush to the land, select their free land, and build their homes. Among the settlers on the Nebraska plains were the Author's parents. In this book the reader has a glimpse of their simple home, the care of the livestock on the farm, the planting and harvesting of the crops, the brutal weather, and the challenges of isolation. Every family depended on their horses for survival. Man power combined with horse power with determination resulted in permanent settlements. When tractors began to emerge for farming, then horses retired from field work. Whoa!