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The Product Defectiveness to Products Liability Claims in China (중국의 제조물책임 관련법규에서의 제조물결함에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Shie-Hwan
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.34
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    • pp.3-26
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    • 2007
  • Product liability law lies at the center of the modem world. This law concerns liability for damages arising from the commercial sale of a product that causes personal injury or property damage because it was defective or falsely represented. One engaged in the business of selling or otherwise distributing products who sells or distributes a defective product is subject to liability for harm to persons or property caused by the defect. In short, product defectiveness is the heart of products liability law. Regardless of the underlying cause of action, the plaintiff in nearly every products liability case must prove that the defendant's product contained an unnecessary hazard that caused the harm. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the meaning of the product defectiveness to products liability claims in China. In China, Product to include most movable personal property, but to exclude services. And a product is defective when, at the time of sale or distribution, it contains a manufacturing defect, is defective in design, or is defective because of inadequate instructions or warnings.

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Construction Cost Forensics: How Best To Protect Your Company And Avoid Costly Problems

  • Opfer, Neil
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2022.06a
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    • pp.1240-1240
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    • 2022
  • Construction projects are fraught with risks from cost or other overruns to accidents along with other issues. This is true whether the relevant organization is an owner, general contractor, CM, specialty-trade contractor, or other entity. When cost issues or other issues confront arise, how should an organization proceed whether attempting to gain additional compensation in terms of cost/other damages or protecting the same against such claims if they do not appear to be warranted? Enter construction cost forensics. This presentation will focus on strategies/techniques with construction cost forensics in these areas in order to be successful. Covered techniques include those to develop and analyze claims including fundamental construction cost analysis techniques. When an unexpected event disrupts a construction project, using sound analytical methods to identify the cause and quantify the extent of the issue will be important for negotiating a fair result or for obtaining a successful outcome in arbitration or litigation. Key examples of uncovering issues via construction cost forensics will be covered in this presentation.

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A Study on the Surrender B/L and the Subrogation Claim of Marine Cargo Insurance under International Trade Transaction (국제무역거래상 권리포기 선하증권과 관련된 해상화물보험의 대위청구권에 관한 연구)

  • LEE, Jae-Sung
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.65
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    • pp.71-94
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    • 2015
  • The insurer's right to take legal proceedings in the name of the assured against a third party who has caused loss of or damage to the goods is of particular importance in marine cargo insurance under international trade transaction. The amounts recovered in subrogation actions, known in practice simply as recoveries, form a significant element in the balancing of the cargo insurer's underwriting account by improving ing the loss record. However, even if the carrier involved in the accident have a liability for damages, in some cases can not claim damages in accordance with the after clauses and carrier's exemption clauses indemnity carrier under the contract of carriage. In recent, the dispute cases to argue damages claim of the carrier in connection with business practices of surrender B/L, the claim is dismissed cases in accordance with the Arbitration Rules of the after clauses. In the future, the surrender B/L is continually to use as a marine transport method, it may also be interested in insurance subrogation of damages claims to insurance accident by a surrender B/L.

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Ex Tunc or Ex Nunc Effects of the Rescission of Contract and the Right to Damages under Korean Law and CISG (한국민법과 CISG상 계약해제의 소급효와 손해배상청구권에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Byung-Mun;Park, Kwang-So
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.36
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    • pp.3-26
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    • 2007
  • This article attempts to describe and analyze discussions on the matter of ex tunc effect or a ex nunc effect of rescission under Korean law in comparison with those under the CISG). In addition, it tries to scrutinize the various rules on the right to damages as an effect of rescission in a comparative way. Furthermore, it compares the various rules of Korean law with the CISG as to the right to damages and evaluates them in light of the discipline of comparative law. It maintains that the liquidation theory in Korean law is more close to the CISG in that there is no ex tunc effect in rescission and in other aspects. It also argues that the construction of the effects of rescission in accordance with the liquidation theory is more plausible when one considers Korea is one of the contracting states of the CISG. In addition, the theoretical analysis and the comparative study with the CISG shows that the insistence of ex nunc effect and its interpretation on the scope of damages extends to damages for expectation interest. It is also submitted that the position under the CISG on the assumption of ex nnuc effect, is regretted in that the restitution in value of the goods in the event of impossibility of the physical restitution is not allowed in some cases which the damage claims can not be awarded for the seller due to the application of the CISG Art. 79.

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A Study on the Delay Claim in Construction Projects (계약공사기간 연장에 의한 클레임 처리방안)

  • 노병옥;이상범;이호일
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2001.11a
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    • pp.93-98
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    • 2001
  • If the construction delays are occurred during the project execution, the contractual parties should inquire the delay causes and the contractual obligation. Due to the compensation of damages, the interested parties and the contractual parties are placed on the adverse situation. For reasonable of the claim and dispute, the contractual parties are needed the objective and systematic procedure method to analyze the delay. The purpose of this study is to propose a formal process model considering the case of construction delay-claims.

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The Process of Identifying the Responsibility Party of Caused Delay Claim by Ambiguity of the Conditions of the Contract (계약 조항의 애매모호성에 의해서 발생되는 공기지연 클레임의 책임 당사자 확인 프로세스)

  • Lee, Chijoo;Kwan, Taewook;Koh, Hoonsuk
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.527-535
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    • 2020
  • This study analyzed main causes of claims in EPC/Turnkey projects. For this purpose, this study referred to the FIDIC silver book, which lists the international standard contract conditions for EPC/Turnkey projects. The most frequent cause of claim was delay. A process was then proposed to determine whether the owner or contractor was the responsible party when the delay claim occurred. The proposed process was for damages for delay which is the conditions of contract for indemnities against delay claim. The process was based on conditions of the contract of two previous EPC/Turnkey projects that were constructed in 2010, the FIDIC silver book, as well as the obligations of owner and contactors. The proposed process is applicable depending on the conditions of the contract and the owner's meaning. Furthermore, by identifying the responsible party, this study will contribute in identifying the possible claim types before concluding a contract and writing the specific contract.

A Study on the Methods to Remedy Consumer Damages Occurring from Transactions through Mail Order Sales Mediating Sites (통신판매중개사이트 거래에서의 소비자피해 구제 방법에 대한 고찰)

  • Yoon, Chang-SuI
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 2007
  • As the transaction using mail order sales mediating sites such as Auction rapidly increase, consumer damages are also increasing. Therefore, in this study, the methods to remedy consumer damages occurring from transactions through mail order sales mediating sites such as the Payment Deposit System, the systems to resolve disputes without any litigation and the systems in relation to the Consumer Basic Act have been examined and measures to improve the systems have been groped. For the transactions using mail order sales intermediating sites, it is necessary to impose more responsibility on mail order sales mediators although the responsibility may not be required to be at the level of mail order sellers such as internet shopping malls. Therefore, institutional supports are necessary to effectively protect consumers in the transactions using mail order sales mediating sites and to induce damaged consumers to actively file claims for compensations. In relation to this, the Collective Dispute Mediation System and the Consumer Group Litigation System under the Consumer Basic Act may become good examples. The consumers who have been subject to the same or similar damages in the transactions using mail order sales mediating sites should also be allowed to participate in the Collective Dispute Mediation under the Consumer Basic Act or actively utilize the Consumer Group Litigation System. Also, it is desirable to reflect these systems on 'the Act on Consumer Protection in E-Commerce etc' so that these systems can also be directly applied to the transactions using mail order sales mediating sites.

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Estimating System for Responsible Days of Schedule Delay for Construction Projects through Time Impact Analysis (건설공사 공기지연 영향분석을 통한 책임일수 산정체계 구축방안)

  • Kang, Leen-Seok;Kwon, Jung-Hee
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.5D
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    • pp.685-694
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    • 2008
  • Recently, construction projects are being gradually changed to large projects with complicated work processes. As a result, claims are increasing as well. Of these, the claims by delayed construction duration are given much weight in the general construction claims. To solve this problem, researches to estimate damages due to delay are carried out in research institutes by analyzing the causes of schedule delay. A system to easily estimate responsible days by analyzing the complicated processes needs for project manager. This study suggests a methodology based on the time impact analysis method, which can utilize the consequential analytical method with the consideration of reduced construction period. The suggested methodology is verified by comparing with actual data of case study by the computerized system for estimating the responsible days.

The Age of Medical Malpractice Crisis : Possibility and Limitation of Legal Resolution (의료분쟁의 해결을 위한 입법방향에 관한 연구)

  • 조형원;배상수;김병익;한달선;이석구;김기수;문옥륜
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.106-131
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    • 1995
  • Nowadays there are a lot of medical accidents and medical disputes in Korea. Our government has made efforts to legislate The Medical Disputes Conciliation Law for several years. But this law has many problems. These problems are followings. 1. the problem of going certainly through compulsory screening panels before coming to court. 2. the possibility in making the impartial screening panels for malpractice claims 3. the utilization of a mutual aid association to have low efficiency in paying for damages by medical malpractice and so on. To resolve medical disputes rapidly, we must legislate The Medical Disputes Conciliation Law in a short time. However, all medical disputes are not rationally dissolved by only this law, The Medical Lsw(Arztrecht) is needed to improve the solubility of medical disputes through setting up the decision criteria.

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Product Liability and a Product Safety Policy (제조물 책임과 제품 안전정책)

  • Byun, Seong-Nam;Lee, Dong-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.265-282
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    • 2000
  • Despite manufacturers' effort to provide safe and reliable products, a number of product-related accidents occur all over the world resulting in much damage to property, personal injury and even loss of life. Considerable evidence indicates that some accidents arise from user negligence, but most are due to the design, manufacture, and distribution of unreasonably dangerous products when compared to their use. As a result, a tremendous number of product liability lawsuits have been filed, many times causing huge amount of financial damages to manufacturers. Furthermore, with increasing government regulation and growing power of consumer lobbies, manufacturers might be more exposed to product liability claims in the future than now. The objectives of this study are twofold: to provide a framework of future research on product liability and safety and to introduce a product safety policy. To accomplish these objectives, previous studies on product liability and safety were reviewed thoroughly. The product safety policy consists of two parts: (1) an engineering design strategy for reducing product-related risks and (2) a management program for a product liability loss prevention plan. The policy is essential to preventing manufacturers' liability exposure as well as designing a safer product.

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