"Some issues."
Sciongrad wrote:3. Further defines "negligence" as a failure to exercise reasonable care or to follow relevant national or subnational product safety laws on hazardous products;
"You've included intentional or reckless disregard for statutes in with negligence. Negligence has no intent element, the others do. You're setting up odd precedent for negligence suits."
4. Establishes the Court of International Claims (CIC), which shall consist of a Trial Division and an Appellate Division, and grants it exclusive jurisdiction over all torts that may occur involving hazardous products in international commerce;
"Most nations simply try the injury in the jurisdiction that the actual injury occurs."
5. Declares that any person (natural or legal) who suffers harm or loss due to a hazardous product in international commerce has the right to sue the person (natural or legal) responsible for said product in the CIC Trial Division;
"Perhaps allow them to sue any defendant who engages in business of manufacturing, distributing, and selling a product, so as to ensure that all possible sources of defect are captured."
- If the plaintiff was negligent and if the defendant was not negligent, no damages shall be awarded to the plaintiff, and the defendant shall be awarded attorney fees for the inconvenience that the plaintiff has caused,
"Attorney fees are an extraordinary measure, but generally in tort law, the winner can ask for attorneys fees. Your first clause refers to 'contributory negligence', which is a complete defense to a negligence claim. Perhaps use that terminology for precision."
If neither the plaintiff nor the defendant was negligent or if the plaintiff and the defendant were both negligent, compensatory damages shall be awarded to the plaintiff based on the standard of strict liability,
"So, if a plaintiff was 75% responsible, and the defendant merely 25% responsible, the defendant's compensation is 100%? Why not reduce the amount to the comparative amount of negligence? Products liability is, of course, a matter of strict liability, so the manufacturer or distributor is responsible for injuries regardless of their own fault, but they should not be responsible for the fault of consumers."
If the plaintiff was not negligent and if the defendant was negligent, treble damages and attorney fees shall be awarded to the plaintiff, thus compensating the plaintiff and discouraging the defendant from committing future negligence;
"Trebel damages are appropriate for punitive action. One does not apply punitive damages to negligence, but intentional or reckless action. Punitive damages seek as a deterrent, and one cannot easily deter an accidental error, as those are likely to happen regardless of the deterrence involved. That is the nature of an accident.
"I think you need to restructure your liability approach."