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Extended warranty
A service contract is sold separately and is a promise to pay for certain repairs or services. Service contracts are usually high-profit add-ons, costing hundreds to more than $1,000.
Comparative/Contributory Negligence
If you are partially or wholly at fault, or you caused your own injuries, you may not be able to recover any compensation.
Express Warranties
Promises stated outright by the manufacturer or seller. They are usually in advertisements or on a product’s packaging.
US CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, they monitor products and issue recalls
Torts law
A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
Distributor
Retailer and all middlepersons (learned intermediary, R3d Torts)
Unjust Enrichment
The general principle of unjust enrichment is that one person should not be able unjustly to enrich himself at the expense of another.
Lemon laws
Help protect consumers by requiring a refund or replacement if a substantial problem is not fixed within a reasonable number of attempts or if the vehicle has been out of service for a certain number of days
Merchant
A person who deals in the goods of the kind or otherwise by his occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices or goods involved in the transaction or to whom such knowledge or skill may be attributed by his employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who by his occupation holds himself out as having such knowledge or skill.
Seller
A person who sells or contracts to sell goods. UCC 2-103(1)(d)
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