21.   It has been deluged by liability lawsuits.

22.   It could also be fodder for liabilities lawsuits.

23.   It would for the first time set national standards for product liability lawsuits, including preventing litigation against retailers and wholesalers unless they had altered the product.

24.   Last week, the Liggett Group moved to settle a smoking liability lawsuit, the first such settlement attempted by a tobacco company.

25.   Limiting product liability lawsuits, she argued, would remove a powerful incentive for manufacturers to make their products safer.

26.   More than a dozen states also have filed product liability lawsuits against the tobacco industry.

27.   Nau joined other representatives of biotech companies to urge the lawmakers to adopt legislation that would shield raw materials suppliers from product liability lawsuits.

28.   One, Norplant, a hormonal implant, was quickly engulfed in product liability lawsuits.

29.   Opponents of limits on product liability lawsuits, led by the trial lawyers trade group, say the limits threaten to restrict legitimate claims against makers of defective products.

30.   One California company has had to declare bankruptcy in part because of the cost to defend itself from a product liability lawsuit, according to gun-rights supporters.