all - Opinion Summaries

FEE TRANS. SERV. INC. v. FULGHAM

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Product Liability
Strict products liability is inapplicable when a company gratuitously provides a product to an independent contractor working for the company for the...

VOLKSWAGEN OF AM. v. RAMIREZ

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a personal injury action, a take-nothing judgment is awarded to plaintiff where the evidence was not legally sufficient to support causation.

GUY v. CROWN EQUIPMENT CORP.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a design defect claim under the Mississippi Products Liability Act, judgment as a matter of law in favor of defendant is affirmed over plaintiff's...

BITLER v. A.O. SMITH CORP.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
A jury verdict imposing products liability on defendant for a gas explosion is affirmed over defendant's challenge to the district court's admission...

MALBROUGH v. CROWN EQUIP. CORP.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
The Louisiana Products Liability Act does not require expert testimony in every instance in which a design defect is alleged.

Young v. Bryco Arms

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In consolidated cases seeking to recover from gun manufacturers and dealers for crimes involving illegal firearms used by minors or young adults who...

City of Chicago v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp.

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a suit to recover from handgun manufacturers, distributors and dealers for the costs which those public entities have incurred as a result of...

BEARINT v. DORELL JUVENILE

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a suit for injuries suffered by a child seated in an infant safety seat, judgment for defendant-manufacturer is affirmed over plaintiff's...

BUNCH v. HOFFINGER INDUS.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a personal injury action, judgment in favor of plaintiff is affirmed over defendant's challenges that 1) it did not have a duty to warn of possible...

LAICO v. CHEVRON

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Product Liability
In an action based on premises liability, judgment for plaintiff-employee is reversed where defendant-employer owed no duty as a landowner to protect...