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Subject: Re: Liability in Expert Systems
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Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 10:53:43 EDT
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Hi,
I don't know about any pending cases, but readers interested in this subject
should check the article by Christopher J. Gill, High Technology Law Journal,
Vol 1, #2, P483-520, Fall 1986 entitled "Medical Expert Systems: Grappling
with Issues of Liability."  An important legal issue is 
whether the use of a medical expert system constitutes a product or a service.
If an expert system is a product, strict liability applies whereas if it a
service then a negligence standard applies.  Perhaps some lawyer reading
Risks or AILIST could read this article and summarize it for us.
It is not easy going.

 ---- George

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