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Product Liability Laws in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts product-liability law applies negligence, breach-of-warranty, and statutory theories against sellers and manufacturers of defective products. Massachusetts has not adopted full strict product liability under Restatement § 402A; instead, much Massachusetts product practice proceeds through breach of the implied warranty of merchantability coupled with Chapter 93A. Massachusetts’s 3-year personal-injury statute of limitations generally applies.
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Statute of Limitations
Product-liability claims sounding in personal injury are generally subject to Massachusetts’s 3-year personal-injury limitation period.
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Key Massachusetts Statutes
Massachusetts product-injury cases often proceed under the UCC implied warranty of merchantability combined with Chapter 93A, since Massachusetts has not adopted traditional strict product liability under § 402A.
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