Such large companies impose confidentiality upon litigants and their lawyers even where the product is defectively designed or otherwise dangerous.

The suits contend that the equipment used by office workers was defectively designed and that manufacturers failed to provide adequate warnings about how the equipment must be used to avoid injury.

Suits in Pennsylvania, California, Mississippi and other states also charge that tobacco companies defectively designed cigarettes.

"The act, like a defectively designed watch, needs to be redesigned and reconstructed by the watchmaker," Judge Vinson wrote.

The claims against Olin were dismissed because it was held that the bullets were not defectively designed.

A12 Youth Fails to Buy Gun Maker A California teenager paralyzed by a defectively designed semiautomatic handgun lost his bid to buy the company that made the gun.

A California teenager paralyzed by a defectively designed semiautomatic handgun lost his bid in federal bankruptcy court yesterday to buy the company that manufactured the gun.

Indian scientists suggested that additional water might have been introduced as a "back-flow" from the defectively designed vent-gas scrubber.

This knowledge would also allow victims of smoking-related diseases, or their survivors, to sue on the ground that the companies could have made cigarettes safer, and that existing models are defectively designed.

the manufacturer had known that the fuel tank on its subcompact Pinto was defectively designed and had consciously decided to proceed with production in spite of the potential hazards.