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Originally Posted by snowgyre
it's such a simple fix I'm not sure why they were defensive instead of proactively addressing a serious safety issue.
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It is possible that at first they did not seek legal advice and were apprehensive that fixing the connection might have exposed them to liability because they may have thought that such a fix would be taken as an admission that the earlier connection was defective.
However, in the interests of public policy such a fix is not such an admission:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_407