all - Opinion Summaries

RIDER v SANDOZ PHARM. CORP.

Evidence, Health Law, Product Liability
Expert testimony, purporting to link the drug Parlodel with hemorrhagic stroke, was inadmissible to prove causation, where the testimony was not...

IN RE COORDINATED LATEX GLOVE LITIG.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a strict liability manufacturing defect claim, judgment notwithstanding the verdict was proper where the products (latex gloves) did not differ...

IN RE: DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORP.

Civil Procedure, Product Liability
A writ of mandamus was granted to recall remand orders in actions for injuries allegedly caused by asbestos in an auto makers' automobiles; all...

LOW v. GOLDEN EAGLE INS. CO.

Class Actions, Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability
An insurer shall not be required to provide a third party defense to a lawsuit for damages from diet products, where the underlying complaint is...

WAL-MART STORES, INC. v. RLI INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Product Liability
Indemnity agreement between chain store and vendor established that vendor intended to indemnify store for any claims related to the sale of a...

MASTERS v. HESSTON CORP.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
A products liability suit against a manufacturer of a hay baler was barred by Illinois law when it was not brought within 12 years from the sale of...

MCGONNELL v. KAISER GYPSUM CO., INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Summary judgment for cement product manufacturers in a wrongful death action for alleged asbestos exposure was proper, where no triable issues of fact...

HOCHEN v. BOBST GROUP, INC.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Appellants did not produce more than a "scintilla of evidence" in support of their theory of an employer's duty in claims relating to a printing press...

HOLLANDER v. SANDOZ PHARM. CORP.

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a product liability claim alleging that a drug caused a brain hemorrhage, where expert medical opinions used similarity of drugs and their...

RIVAS v. SAFETY-KLEEN CORP.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
California's one-year statute of limitations for personal injury will bar complaints against manufacturers and suppliers of various allegedly toxic...