California Court of Appeal

Primary assumption of the risk did not bar plaintiffs' strict products liability suit against manufacturer of a jet ski for defective design, and standard instructions on defective design were proper in case where plaintiff sustained severe orifice injuries, and whose internal organs were torn apart, after falling off jet ski.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2006
• Published 05/18/2006

Judges

• REARDON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bowman and Brooke, George W. Soule, Janice K. O'Grady, San Jose, Bingham McCutchen, David M. Heilbron, Robert A. Brundage, San Francisco, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Walkup, Melodia, Kelly, Wecht & Schoenberger, Paul V. Melodia, Michon Herrin, San Francisco, De Goff and Sherman, Victoria J. De Goff, Richard Sherman, San Francisco, for Respondents.