all - Opinion Summaries

KELSO v. BAYER CORP.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a products liability suit, dismissal of plaintiff's failure-to-warn claim is affirmed where defendant's nasal spray product warning was adequate as...

MCGUIRE v. DAVIDSON MFG. CORP.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Under a theory of res ipsa loquitur in a comparative negligence system, Iowa courts would hold that plaintiffs need not disprove their own fault in...

HARDIN v. BASF CORP.

Agriculture, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Plaintiffs' claims for negligence and strict liability, based on damage to their commercial tomato crop, are preempted by the Insecticide, Fungicide...

BURTON v. R.J. REYNOLDS

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a products liability suit against a cigarette manufacturer, a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff is reversed where Kansas courts would not...

RIVERA v. PHILIP MORRIS, INC.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a wrongful death action, dismissal of plaintiff's strict liability failure-to-warn claim is reversed where the evidence in the record is sufficient...

CABONI v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a products liability action, a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff is reversed where he failed to elicit any evidence at trial that established that...

TRAVELERS INDEM. v. CANON

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a suit alleging defendant's copy machine was the cause of a fire, judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where the district court did not err...

FORD MOTOR CO. v. TODECHEENE

Civil Procedure, Indian Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
There is no tribal jurisdiction over a nonmember in a product liability case.

UNREIN v. TIMESAVERS, INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a products liability action, summary judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed where the district court did not err in excluding the testimony of...

BOERNER v. BROWN & WILLIAMSON

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Remedies
A jury award of $4 million, based on a claim that the defective nature of defendant's Pall Mall cigarettes caused plaintiff-decedent's lung cancer and...