MO HB1655

Manufacturers and sellers are not liable for harm caused after a product's useful safe life expires, except when they have warranted longer safe use or intentionally misrepresented or concealed information about the product.

A presumption arises that harm was caused after the useful safe life expired if the harm occurred more than 12 years after delivery, rebuttable only by a preponderance of the evidence.

Claims under product liability law must be brought within five years from when the claimant discovered the harm and its cause.

"Useful safe life" begins at product delivery and ends when the product would normally perform or be stored safely, or when the product is materially altered by a non-commercial purchaser or lessee.

This section does not apply to claims for economic loss, personal injury, property damage, or wrongful death arising from defects in improvements to real property.