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By Adv. Peggy Sharon

The Jerusalem Supreme Court of Appeals has determined that a Product Liability Policy only covers physical damage caused to third party property and not financial damages allegedly sustained thereby. Therefore, expenses accrued to detect a flaw or crack in pipelines are not covered under the Policy, being merely a financial loss.

Yael Navon, Adv.  

In a precedent decision handed down by the Tel Aviv District Court on 7^th October 2008, the Court ordered the largest milk distributor in Israel - TNUVA - to compensate its milk consumers for mixing silicon into its products and concealing this fact from the public. The sum awarded by the Court is the highest compensation ever awarded in a Class Action in Israel.

Since the sixties a major effort was undertaken to reform the existing civil legislation which, as mentioned, was mostly Mandatory and even Ottoman. A series of laws was enacted in the field of civil law, including the Contracts Law (General Provisions) - 1973, the Contract Law (remedies) - 1970. These laws were mainly based on the German Codex.

Dring the 1980's the Israeli legislator enacted a list of laws which were consumer oriented namely laws which were meant to protect the consumers. Among these laws are the Consumer Protection Law - 1981, Liability for Defective Products Law -1980, the Insurance Contract Law -1981 and others.