Wacky Warning Label Contest
The World Famous Wacky Warning Label Contest
Have you seen any good warning labels lately? Of course you have. They’re almost everywhere you look.
Anyone who makes or sells a product in America today knows that if they don’t warn about every potential outcome that could happen while someone is using or misusing their product, they could get sued. Even if it’s obvious. That’s why there is a label on a motorized go-cart that warns: “This product moves when used,” and another one on a common dust mask that actually warns: “Does not supply oxygen.”
The Wacky Warning Label Contest is aimed at sparking a national conversation about all the ways life is changing in the most lawsuit-happy society on earth. We hope that as more people become aware of this problem, judges will get serious about throwing out frivolous lawsuits, and we won’t need wacky, common sense warnings anymore.
The Wacky Warning Label Contest has been featured on virtually every national TV network, in the Wall Street Journal, the Congressional Quarterly, numerous magazines as diverse as Reader’s Digest and Nickelodeon and even the jumbotron in New York City’s Times Square. It also inspired the bestselling book, “Remove Child Before Folding.” The title is in reference to a warning label found with a child’s stroller.
One of the past winners of the contest was found on a fishing lure produced in Michigan by a great family business that was founded in 1912. Today, they sell millions of lures around the world, but nowhere is the litigation problem as bad as it is here in the United States. As a result, the label on this fishing lure actually says: “Warning, harmful if swallowed.”
Enter MiLAW’s Wacky Warning Label Contest
Send in your Wacky Warning Labels
The Wacky Warning Labels Contest has a grand prize of $1000.00 and a $500.00 second prize.
A very good reason to keep your eye out for the Wackiest label.
Deadline to submit labels is March 15, 2022. Winners will be announced on April 1.
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