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Suppose you are in the business of making ladders. A customer places a board plank between two of your ladders

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Suppose you are in the business of making ladders. A customer places a board plank between two of your ladders as a scaffold. One of the ladders fails, causing your customer to fall and break a leg. Are you responsible for your customer's losses? How can you protect yourself from lawsuits in such cases?

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