Product liability law of Switzerland.

There is only a product liability case if somebody is injured or died or if property for the personal use was damaged and if the product that caused the injury/damage did not fulfill the legitimate security expectations.

What the legitimate security expectations are will be decided in each single case and thus, will change over time and may differ from region to region. To follow all governmental technical rules is no guarantee that the legitimate security expectations are fulfilled but to follow such technical rules is a good start. In certain case a warning note may exclude or limit the liability but the companies may conclude insurances covering such product liability. The producers of the raw material, the parts, the end product as well as the assembler and the importer and in certain cases the supplier may be liable. The victim may file action within three years of the day it has full knowledge of requirements for the liability but in any case not later than ten years after the first sale of the product that caused the injury/damage. The product liability can not be excluded or limited by an agreement. Health insurance is mandatory in Switzerland and thus, most of the time when a person is injured the health insurance will pay and therefore, product liability will not be the primary instrument to recover the healing costs and there are very few product liability cases since the law was introduced in 1994.