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JOURNAL OF PRODUCTS AND TOXICS LIABILITY JOURNAL OF PRODUCTS AND TOXICS LIABILITY EDITORS-IN-CHIEF M. Stuart Madden Kenneth Ross, Esq. Professor of Law Bowman and Brooke Pace University School of Law 150 South Fifth Street 78 N. Broadway Suite 2600 White Plains, NY 10603 Minneapolis, MN 55402 Editorial Assistant Dolores Vohnout EDITORIAL BOARD LEWIS BASS, Esq., P.E. LEE S. KREINDLER, Esq. PAUL D. RHEINGOLD, Esq. The Kairos Company Kreindler and Kreindler Rheingold & McGowan, P.C. Mountain View, CA 100 Park Avenue New York, NY SHEILA BIRNBAUM, Esq. New York, NY HAROLD L. SCHWAB, Esq. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom DAVID A. McINTOSH Lester, Schwab, Katz and Dwyer New York, NY Davies Arnold Cooper New York, NY PROFESSOR GERALD W. BOSTON London, England Thomas M. Cooley Law School TOSHIHIRO MITSUI VICTOR SCHWARTZ, Esq. Lansing, MI The Tokio Marine Research Institute Crowell and Moring DR. ALAN DORRIS Tokyo, Japan Washington, DC Dorris and Associates, Inc. JOHN JUDE O'DONNELL, Esq. JAMES J. SEIFERT, Esq. Peachtree City, GA Thompson, O'Donnell, Markham, The Toro Company PROFESSOR DAVID A. FISCHER Norton, & Hannon Minneapolis, MN University of Missouri-Columbia Washington, DC School of Law MICHAEL TABER, Esq. Columbia, MO JAMES O’REILLY Gates Corporation The Proctor & Gamble Company Denver, CO PROFESSOR MICHAEL GREEN Cincinnati, OH University of Iowa College of Law PROFESSOR AARON TWERSKI Iowa City, IA PROFESSOR DAVID G. OWEN Brooklyn Law School FRANCIS H. HARE, Jr., Esq. University of South Carolina Brooklyn, NY School of Law Hare, Wyman, Newell and Newton Birmingham, AL Columbia, SC JOHN W. WADE, Emeritus Dean PRHOEFNEDSSEORRS ONJ,A MEJSr. A. PDeRpOaFrEtSmeSnOtR ofG EMeOcRhaGnEi caWl. EPnEgiAnReSeAriLnLg VNaasnhdveirlbliel, t TUNn iversity School of Law Professor of Law & Materials Science MALCOLM E. WHEELER, Esq. Cornell Law School Duke University Parcel, Mauro, Hultin and Spaanstra Ithaca, NY Durham, NC Denver, CO MICHAEL HOENIG, Esq. HARRY PHILO, Esq. Herzfeld and Rubin Philo, Atkinson, Steinberg, White, NICHOLAS J. WITTNER, Esq. New York, NY Stephens & Whitaker Nissan North America, Inc. Detroit, MI Torrance, CA JUDY A. KEENAN, Esq. Philo, Atkinson, Steinberg, White, PROFESSOR WILLIAM C. POWERS, Jr. BARBARA WRUBEL, Esq. Stephens & Whitaker University of Texas School of Law Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Detroit, MI Austin, TX New York, NY Production Editor: Lauren Levey, E-mail: [email protected] Publishing, Advertising and Subscription Offices: Elsevier Science Inc., 660 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, NY 10591-5!53, USA, E-mail address: [email protected];; or Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1GB, England. Published Quarterly: Annual Institutional Subscription Rates 1995: North, Central and South America, U.S. $343.00, Rest of World, £230.00. Sterling prices exclude VAT. Non-VAT registered customers in the European Community will be charged the appropriate VAT in addition to the price listed. Prices include postage and insurance and are subject to change without notice. Journal of Products & Toxics Liability, Vol. 16, Nos. 3/4, pp. III-VI, 1994 Pergamon Copyright © 1994 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0967-2680/94 $6.00 + .00 VOLUME CONTENTS Volume 16 Number | Pages 1-104 1994 The Performance of the Liability Reform Experiments: New York and Colorado W. Kip Viscusi and Patricia Born Perceptions and Responses to Warning Labels: Implications for Products Liability Litigation John M. McGrath Should Courts Conduct Preliminary Screening Hearings of Expert Witnesses Proffered in Products Liability Litigation? -A Debate Edited by Hon. Warren Eginton Editor’s Introduction Preliminary Screening Hearings in Products Liability Litigation: Trampling on the Fundamental Constitutional Right to Trial by Jury Avi Lew Courts Should Conduct Pre-Trial Qualification Hearings for Expert Witnesses in Products Liability Cases Christopher Downey The Duty to Warn of ETS’s Dangers: What if Thomas Cipollone Gets Cancer? Lawrence P. Warshaw Electromagnetic Fields and Human Health: Chasing the Answer to Benjamin Franklin’s 250-Year-Old Question Richard D. Holahan, Jr. Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer: On the Frontier of Tort Liability— L etter Robert J. Goldstein IV VOLUME CONTENTS & AUTHOR INDEX Volume 16 Number 2 Pages 105-208 1994 A Federal Tort Law Is Still a Bad Idea: A Comment on Senate Bill 687 Andrew F. Popper Focus Group Evaluations of Warning Labels for Industrial Buckets Carol Pollack-Nelson Constraints on the Off-Label Uses of Prescription Drug Products Lars Noah A No-Frills Approach to Rulemaking Leaves Workers at Risk: OSHA's Failed Attempt to Enact “Generic” Air Contaminants Standards Anthony Scordo Volume 16 Numbers 3/4 Pages 209-344 1994 Behavioral Criticisms of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability Howard A. Latin Tobacco Industry Liability for Cigarette-Related Injuries: “Smokers, Give It Up!” Gregory P. Taxin The Ingredient Supplier Defense Charles E. Erway, III The Effect of Warning Label Language on Behavioral Intent Carol Pollack-Nelson EMF Litigation After Daubert: The Implications for Power Line Toxic Tort Plaintiffs Paul W. Barnard VOLUME CONTENTS & AUTHOR INDEX The Comparative Fault Monkey Wrench in Choice of Law for Multistate Products Liability Litigation—An Essay M. Stuart Madden Book Review Punitive Damages in Tort Law by Gerald W. Boston Burton M. Leiser Volume 16 List of Contents and Author Index