UJI 13-1418 NMRA
UJI 13-1418. Warning or directions; adequacy.
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To satisfy the duty [to warn] [to give directions for use], [a warning] [directions for
use] must be adequate. To be adequate, [a warning] [directions for use] must have
certain characteristics:
(1)
It must be in a form that can reasonably be expected to catch the
attention of the reasonably foreseeable user of the product;
(2)
It must be understandable to the reasonably foreseeable user of the
product; and
(3)
It must disclose the nature and extent of the danger. In this regard, there
must be specified any harmful consequence which a reasonably foreseeable user would
not understand from a general warning of the product’s danger [or] [from a simple
directive to use or not to use the product for a certain purpose or in a certain way].