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Legal Alert – Court Rules That Bilingual Warning Labels Are Not Required for Product
by Janine Schwerter
A recent product liability case will be useful in providing guidance to manufacturers and distributors on product warning labels and instructions.
Last week, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that general marketing to a non-English speaking population does not create a duty to provide bilingual warning labels or instructions, as a matter of law.
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