The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781305967304
Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 28, Problem 4BCP
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Case summary:Company M manufactures and sells over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. Its main brand Z accounts for almost 70 percent sale of the company. The reports about loss of sense of smell by the customer are received by company M. There were four product liability suits registered against company M. Company did not reveal the information received by the report. Person J and other investors filed a suit against M claiming the omission of material information by the company.

To explain:The standard for materiality in the claim filed by the investors.

Summary Introduction

Case summary:Company M manufactures and sells over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. Its main brand Z accounts for almost 70 percent sale of the company. The reports about loss of sense of smell by the customer are received by company M. There were four product liability suits registered against company M. Company did not reveal the information received by the report. Person J and other investors filed a suit against M claiming the omission of material information by the company.

To explain:The validity of claim made by the person J.

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