MS SB2810

Amends Mississippi Code Section 11-1-63 to include "designers" alongside manufacturers and sellers in products liability provisions covering strict liability, negligence, and breach of warranty claims.

Expands the definition of parties who must prove product defects (manufacturing, design, or warning defects) by the preponderance of evidence, including designers in specifications and warning adequacy standards.

Establishes that manufacturers must indemnify product sellers or designers for litigation costs, attorney's fees, and damages unless the seller or designer exercised substantial control over the defective aspect, altered the product, had actual knowledge of the defect, or made express representations about the defective aspect.

Provides that non-manufacturer sellers or designers are not liable unless they exercised substantial control over the defective aspect, altered or modified the product in a manner causing harm, or had actual or constructive knowledge of the defect when supplying the product.

Takes effect July 1, 2012.