United States Fifth Circuit

Where plaintiff's expert could not quantify the value of the improvements in the alternative design and could not state for sure that the alternative design would have prevented the accident, plaintiff has not met the requirements of "safer alternative design" set forth in Tex. Civ. Pract. Rem. 82.005(b)

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/11/2001
• Published 01/11/2001

Judges

• W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS, SMITH and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Ernest Swift, Jr. (argued), Jeffrey Don Herrington, Swift & Herrington, Palestine, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Scott J. Atlas (argued), Vinson & Elkins, Houston, TX, Thomas S. Leatherbury, Vinson & Elkins, David M. Ellis, Clark, West, Keller, Butler & Ellis, Dallas, TX, for Defendant-Appellant.