Applied in 54 court decisions — leading case Buchler v. Oregon Corrections Div. (1993)
Most recently applied in 323 Or. App. 214 - Brown v. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC (December 2022)
1977 c.843 §1
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
As used in ORS 30.900 to 30.920, “product liability civil action” means a civil action brought against a manufacturer, distributor, seller or lessor of a product for damages for personal injury, death or property damage arising out of:
(1) Any design, inspection, testing, manufacturing or other defect in a product;
(2) Any failure to warn regarding a product; or
(3) Any failure to properly instruct in the use of a product.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.