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The proposed revised Product Liability Directive—implications for life sciences

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Published on: 14 December 2022

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Table of contents

In short
In greater detail
What is staying the same?
New life sciences companies and products brought within scope
Additional criteria for assessing defect
Introduction of rebuttable presumptions to prove defect or causation
Extension of longstop for latent harm
Expansion of types of compensable damage
Representative claims permitted
What’s next for the proposed Directive?

Article summary

Life Sciences analysis: Rachel Duffy, associate, Andrew Austin, partner, and Harriet Hanks, senior associate, at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, consider the effect the proposed revised Product Liability Directive will have on the life sciences sector.

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