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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 411 RIGHTS OF ACTION AND SURVIVAL OF ACTIONS
411.310 Presumptions in product liability actions.
Download pdfdefective if the injury, death or property damage occurred either more than five (5)
years after the date of sale to the first consumer or more than eight (8) years after
the date of manufacture. (2) In any product liability action, it shall be presumed, until rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence to the contrary, that the product was not defective if
the design, methods of manufacture, and testing conformed to the generally
recognized and prevailing standards or the state of the art in existence at the time
the design was prepared, and the product was manufactured. Effective: June 17, 1978
History: Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 91, sec. 3, effective June 17, 1978.
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