Product liability has about killed the small general aviation aircraft world.  If you could still sue Ford today for getting injured in a 1956 Fairlane, auto prices would be like airplane prices.  Like health care, we will never see any real cost reductions until we see tort reform returned to the old 'treble damages' standard and eliminate the $6 Million punitive damages awards for spilling hot coffee.  As a pharmaceutical sales rep once told me when I was a doctor's office manager, "How many of those $35 bottles do you think we have to sell just to pay the lawyers in a million-dollar product liability lawsuit?"