Queenway Tankers, Inc., Kingsway Tankers, Inc. the East River Steamship Corporat
ID: 394452 • Letter: Q
Question
Queenway Tankers, Inc., Kingsway Tankers, Inc. the East River Steamship Corporation, and Richmond Tankers, Inc., all chartered supertankers designed by Transamerican Delaval, Inc. Under the terms of the charters, each shipping company financially responsible for any repairs to the tankers. From the start, there were problems with the tankers' turbines, which needed extensive and costly repairs. The plaintiffs brought a product li- ability suit against Delaval. The suit alleged that the manufacturing defects caused the damage. Should the shipping companies have prevailed in product liability against the manufacturer? Explain. East River Steamship Corporation v. Transamerican Delaval, Inc., 106 S. Ct. 2305 (U.S. Sup. Ct.).
Explanation / Answer
Definitely the shipping company should have prevailed if these specific issues were already present during the time of receipt. Are there already filing the Complaints with Delaval from beginning they should have definitely prevailed. In this case shipping company definitely has an advantage as they cannot protect the product from engineering itself because of a manufacturing defect and regarding the contract agreement as well as the warranty aspect of the agreement the specific cases in favour of the shipping company. They would be a problem in extension for strict product liability law for covering the economic damages as well as it would directly result to the contract law and the company would be stuck in between of dealing with multiple situations or torts.