The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases
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Author: Frank B Cross/ Roger LeRoy Miller
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Case summary:The parents of a five-year-old child C filed a case against the company F, alleging that the seat belt of their car was defectively designed. However, C wore the seat belt incorrectly. The car had a collision because of which C suffered injury in his spinal cord that resulted into paralysis.
To explain : The claim of the company that C misused the seatbelt which caused the injury.
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