By Andrew Sowerby and Kelcie White ( August 17, 2021, 12:24 PM EDT) -- Absent a contractual relationship, tort law, usually the law of negligence, is the path to recovery in product liability cases. Courts have recognized up to four types of product liability negligence: negligent manufacture, negligent design, negligent failure to warn and claims of pure economic loss for the cost of repairing a dangerously defective product....