District Court of Appeal of Florida

Summary judgment for defendants in a negligence and product liability action involving plugs used to repair tire punctures is reversed where the trial court erred in rejecting an expert opinion and determining that the plugs were not shown to be defective, and that there was no basis for liability on the part of defendants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/26/2006
• Published 01/26/2006

Judges

• ALLEN, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Julie H. Littky-Rubin of Lytal, Reiter, Clark, Fountain & Williams, LLP, West Palm Beach, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Fite of Barron, Redding, Hughes, Fite, Fensom, Sanborn & Kiehn, P.A., Panama City, for Appellees James Lane and William Lane, d/b/a Wiregrass Distributing Company., W. Cleveland Acree, II and Daniel A. Tressler, II of The Unger Law Group, P.L., Orlando, for Appellees North Shore Laboratories Corporation and Safety Tire Seal Corporation.