product liability

Jun 1, 2022

$15.5M settlement reached for Oklahoma girl injured by window cord

A St. Louis law firm said it obtained a $15.5 million settlement for a 3-year-old girl in Oklahoma who suffered a traumatic brain injury when she became entangled in the cord of a window blind.

Mar 20, 2020

Torts: Product Liability-Stream of Commerce-Sufficiency of Evidence

Plaintiff suffered serious injuries to his fingers. He filed suit against defendant, the successor to the designer of the machine that injured him. The district court granted summary judgment to […]

Mar 13, 2020

Torts: Product Liability-Stream of Commerce-Sufficiency of Evidence

Plaintiff suffered serious injuries to his fingers. He filed suit against defendant, the successor to the designer of the machine that injured him. The district court granted summary judgment to […]

Feb 18, 2020

Negligence: Remand-Agency Liability-Product Liability

Where a tree service employee, who was injured while working, sued a wood chipper manufacturer, the employee’s motion to remand is affirmed because even if the district court erred, the […]

Oct 25, 2019

Negligence: Product Liability-Negligent Design-Immunity

Where property owners brought an action alleging that a fire was caused by a defective refrigerator installed in a recreational vehicle, the defendant sold but did not manufacture, design or […]

Oct 18, 2019

Torts: Product Liability-Personal Jurisdiction

Defendants appealed from the judgment entered against them, awarding plaintiff actual and punitive damages for plaintiff’s use of defendants’ talc products. On appeal, defendants argued that the trial court lacked […]

Oct 14, 2019

Ford Motor Co. wins at trial in asbestos-death case

Ford Motor Co. won a defense verdict in the asbestos-related death of a former brake worker. The company was the last of 60 defendants named in a suit involving the […]

Sep 18, 2019

Negligence: Product Liability-Design Defect-Breach of Express Warranty

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; […]

Aug 16, 2019

Shorey, Deschler join Armstrong Teasdale

Matthew S. Shorey and Gregory D. Deschler have joined Armstrong Teasdale in St. Louis. Shorey joins the firm’s litigation practice as a partner. Shorey’s practice is focused on defending medical […]

Apr 23, 2019

Settlement reached after girl is strangled by blinds’ cord

The family of a child who died when she became entangled in the pull cord of a window blind reached a $1.525 million settlement with the blind’s retailer and manufacturer, […]

Mar 13, 2019

College of the Ozarks student who lost fingers settles feed-mixer lawsuit

A College of the Ozarks student who lost four fingers while mixing feed has agreed to settle her product-liability suit stemming from the incident for $2 million. The student, Heather […]

Mar 4, 2019

Negligence: Product Liability-Design Defect-Gas-Can Explosion

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 […]