Well my father was involved in a lawsuit whereby a tuna fish manufacturing company and my father were being sued by a guy having his hand chopped up since there wasn't a sign that said - turn off power before clearing a jam in the egg white chopper. He didn't turn off the power, reached around the guard that prevents fingers from getting chopped up while running, and had his hand chopped up. My dad made the guard and it was demonstrated in court that it was working 100% as intended.In my old job we had a towel dispenser like this one. They actually put a warning label on it saying "Warning: Intentional misuse could be harmful or fatal". I'd like to know what idiot hung himself on one of these requiring the need for a warning label.
However, due to a really stupid California law in the 70s (which was actually fixed in the 80s), the manufacturing company was only liable up to the Work Comp payout which was $128,000 at the time. And if anyone else was named in the lawsuit, the other party is liable for the difference no matter the percentage of responsibility even if that party was .00000000xxxxx1% responsible. As a result, my dad was added to the lawsuit because the lawyer was hoping that the jury would be stupid enough to assign some blame to my dad.
Just to make matters worse, the judge gave terrible instructions to the jury. He stated that the jury must find a percentage of responsibility for each party including the injured party which must add up to 100%. He didn't mention that the percentage could be 0 for any of the parties. As a result, the jury found the tuna fish manufacturer 50% at fault, the injured party at 40% and my dad at 10% because the jury had to find my dad some percentage of responsibility. Yes the jury was stupid enough to assign some blame to my dad. Smart lawyer - stupid jury. So my dad was responsible for the entire difference between 50% and the $128,000 plus another 10%. Fortunately my dad's insurance barely covered the difference but his insurance premiums did go up.
And that lawsuit ended up having many companies put up stupid signs like the above.