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从60年代中期开始,美国产品责任法的发展进入了“倾向原告”的时代。1963年的格林曼诉尤巴电器公司案标志着严格责任的确立。严格责任原则的适用把对消费者的保护带入了一个前所未有的黄金时期。在这一时期,产品胜诉率及获得的赔偿额越来越高。进入70年代以后,更有一些法院的判决使严格责任呈现出向绝对责任发展的势头。 因为产品责任的赔偿一般都转移到保险公司那里,而产品责任的日益严格与判决金额的迅猛增长迫使保险公司采取了极端措施。或者大幅度提高保险费,或者限制险种,
From the mid-1960s, the development of the U.S. Product Liability Law entered an era of “favoring plaintiffs.” 1963 Greenman v. Uba Electric Company marks the establishment of strict liability. The application of the principle of strict liability brought the protection of consumers into an unprecedented golden period. During this period, the product winning percentage and the amount of compensation received were higher and higher. Since the 1970s, some even more court decisions have given strict liability the tendency to develop toward absolute responsibility. Because product liability compensation is generally transferred to the insurance company there, and the increasingly stringent product liability and the rapid growth in the amount of judgment forced the insurer to take extreme measures. Or substantially increase the premiums, or limit the types of insurance,