In the end, the legal system in place in the USA (and to a great extent in Canada) is just a money grab game. Little if anything to do with who's at fault. There seems little justice left within the legal system we have carefully crafted for ourselves. ________________________________________________________________________________
Ralph McDiarmid | Schneider Electric | Renewable Energies Business | CANADA | Regulatory Compliance Engineering From: Peter Tarver <ptar...@enphaseenergy.com> To: EMC-PSTC@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Date: 11/15/2011 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [PSES] CE marking of deep-fat fryer > From: ralph.mcdiar...@schneider-electric.com [mailto:ralph.mcdiar...@schneider-electric.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 08:51 > > I don't think UL would be sued; the manufacturer is ultimately liable. The is little or no > benefit of 3rd party certification of a product under Tort law. The precedence of tort law is to assign financial responsibility in weighted proportion to the depth of pocket, regardless of actual responsibility or lack thereof. If UL (or any other NRTL) has a safety certification mark on a product used with the offending fryer, even if not a part of the original equipment, it can lead to naming them in a suit. Regards, Peter L. Tarver, PE This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not an intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, disclose or distribute this message. If you received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com> ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. ______________________________________________________________________ - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>
