all - Opinion Summaries

TRANSUE v. AESTHETECH CORP.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
The district court should have instructed on strict liability with respect to appellant's manufacturing defect claim in a suit alleging a defective...

STANTON v. ST. JUDE MED., INC.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
District court did not err in dismissing a tort action against a manufacturer that used its process to apply defendant's patented coating to fabric...

HISER v. BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a wrongful death action arising from a helicopter crash, despite defendant's claims that the matter was time-barred under the General Aviation...

HINER v. DEERE & CO., INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Summary judgment was inappropriate on plaintiff's self-raising warning-defect claim under Kansas product liability law, as evidence creates a question...

AHRENS v. FORD MOTOR CO.

Agriculture, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Plaintiff has not shown that risk of falling from a tractor without a seat belt is beyond the contemplation of an ordinary consumer, so as a matter of...

GREEN LEAF NURSERY v. E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO.

Agriculture, Civil Procedure, Product Liability
In an action alleging discovery abuses, litigation misconduct and RICO violations to induce the settlement of Benlate cases throughout the country for...

SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO. v. HOLMES COUNTY

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
The district court gave insufficient weight to factors supporting exercise of jurisdiction and erred in dismissing a declaratory action as to a paint...

ANDERSON v. RAYMOND CORP.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a negligence and strict liability action under Arkansas law, plaintiff's proposed expert's testimony regarding stand-uplift truck design was...

CRYOLIFE, INC. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Remedies
Plaintiff cannot state a cause of action for strict products liability because defendant is a tissue bank that as a matter of law provided a service,...

BRANDT v. BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Plaintiff cannot bring a viable cause of action for breach of the UCC implied warranty of merchantability against a hospital after a defective medical...