Defendants appealed from the judgment entered in favor of plaintiffs on their breach-of-express-warranty claim. Plaintiff Jeffrey Klingenberg suffered an injury after falling from a ladder designed and sold by defendants; plaintiffs alleged that the weight label on the ladder created ...

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  Where the family of a man, who was fatally burned in a gas-can explosion, sued the gas-can manufacturer claiming the warnings on the can were inadequate, the judgment finding the defendant to be 45 percent at fault for the ...

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Where a truck driver who was injured when he fell while tightening a part on his truck sued the manufacturer and received a partial verdict, the judgment is reversed and remanded for a new trial because the trial court erred ...

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Mack v. Stryker Corporation (MLW No. 66390/Case No. 12-3130 – 18 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Smith, J.)

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Clair v. Nishida (MLW No. 65266/Case No. ED99246 – 25 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Dowd Jr., J.) Appealed from circuit court, St. Louis County, Wallace, J. (John G. Simon and Steve Jensen for appellant)

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Fullington v. Pfizer, Inc. (MLW No. 65247/Case No. 12-2945 – 14 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Gruender, J.)

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Bell v. Pfizer, Inc. (MLW No. 65124/Case No. 12-1674 – 15 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Riley, J.)

Tagged with: Design Defect Negligence product liability