Topic: Launch Management and Public Policy Issue Read and explain briefly what I means. “The worst thing about product liability is what they call strict liability. Now, I know it’s hard to prove negligence against a typical large corporation of today, but that’s no reason to go to the other extreme and say a company is guilty when there is no evidence it did anything wrong. We market thousands of products in- volving thousands of people.   Strange things are going to happen. Employees are not robots—they make human errors. You’ve probably already made a mistake or two today, yet if you were in a business, you could be sued, found guilty, and then hit with a punitive damages ruling like a common criminal. That’s just not fair.”

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Topic: Launch Management and Public Policy Issue

Read and explain briefly what I means.

“The worst thing about product liability is what they call strict liability. Now, I know it’s hard to prove negligence against a typical large corporation of today, but that’s no reason to go to the other extreme and say a company is guilty when there is no evidence it did  anything wrong. We market thousands of products in- volving thousands of people.  

Strange things are going to happen. Employees are not robots—they make human errors. You’ve probably already made a mistake or two today, yet if you were in a business, you could be sued, found guilty, and then hit with a punitive damages ruling like a common criminal. That’s just not fair.”

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