§ 99B-1. Definitions. - North Carolina Statutes

Chapter99B.

Products Liability.

§ 99B‑1.  Definitions.

When used in this Chapter,unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)        "Claimant"means a person or other entity asserting a claim and, if said claim is assertedon behalf of an estate, an incompetent or a minor, "claimant"includes plaintiff's decedent, guardian, or guardian ad litem.

(2)        "Manufacturer"means a person or entity who designs, assembles, fabricates, produces,constructs or otherwise prepares a product or component part of a product priorto its sale to a user or consumer, including a seller owned in whole orsignificant part by the manufacturer or a seller owning the manufacturer inwhole or significant part.

(3)        "Productliability action" includes any action brought for or on account ofpersonal injury, death or property damage caused by or resulting from themanufacture, construction, design, formulation, development of standards,preparation, processing, assembly, testing, listing, certifying, warning,instructing, marketing, selling, advertising, packaging, or labeling of anyproduct.

(4)        "Seller"includes a retailer, wholesaler, or distributor, and means any individual orentity engaged in the business of selling a product, whether such sale is forresale or for use or consumption. "Seller" also includes a lessor orbailor engaged in the business of leasing or bailment of a product. (1979,c. 654, s. 1; 1995, c. 522, s. 1.)