Questão jurídica principal
Whether the Product Liability Act applied to a hip prosthesis implanted during surgery
Decisão extraída
Yes. For bodily injury claims caused by a defective product, private-use limitation of Art. 1(1)(b) LRFP is irrelevant; a hip prosthesis remains a product under Art. 3 LRFP.
Fundamentação extraída
The claim sought compensation for bodily injury, not for damage to another thing or to the prosthesis itself. The relevant basis was Art. 1(1)(a) LRFP, which does not require private use. Use in the context of medical services does not remove product status.