North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 99B Products Liability

• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-1.   Definitions
  When used in this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Claimant" means a person or other entity asserting a claim and, if said...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-1.1.   Strict liability
  There shall be no strict liability in tort in product liability actions. (1995, c. 522, s. 1.)
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-1.2.   Breach of warranty
  Nothing in this act shall preclude a product liability action that otherwise exists against a manufacturer or seller for breach of warranty. The defenses...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-2.   Seller's opportunity to inspect; privity requirements for warranty claims
  (a) No product liability action, except an action for breach of express warranty, shall be commenced or maintained against any seller when the product...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-3.   Alteration or modification of product
  (a) No manufacturer or seller of a product shall be held liable in any product liability action where a proximate cause of the personal...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-4.   Knowledge or reasonable care
  No manufacturer or seller shall be held liable in any product liability action if: (1) The use of the product giving rise to the...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-5.   Claims based on inadequate warning or instruction
  (a) No manufacturer or seller of a product shall be held liable in any product liability action for a claim based upon inadequate warning...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-6.   Claims based on inadequate design or formulation
  (a) No manufacturer of a product shall be held liable in any product liability action for the inadequate design or formulation of the product...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-7 through 99B-9.   Reserved for future codification purposes
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-10.   Immunity for donated food
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 12 of Chapter 106 of the General Statutes, or any other provision of law, any person, including but...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-11.   Claims based on defective design of firearms
  (a) In a products liability action involving firearms or ammunition, whether a firearm or ammunition shell is defective in design shall not be based...
• N.C. Gen. Stat. § 99B-12.   Burden of proof in certain cases
  (a) A commodity producer shall be entitled to a rebuttable presumption that the commodity producer was not negligent when death or injury is proximately...

Last modified: March 23, 2014