PRODUCT | Product liability and product safety and the interface with class actions / collective redress: Private enforcement on the rise

The new Product Liability Directive (EU 2024/2853 – PLD 2024) marks a profound shift in the European liability landscape, strengthening a system based on the liability without fault on the part of economic operators, considered by the lawmakers as “the sole means of adequately addressing the problem of fair apportionment of risk inherent in modern technological production”. One of its most notable changes versus the current version of the directive (PLD 1985) is the presumption introduced by…
By: Hogan Lovells