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Design Defect Claim Rejected for Lack of Cost Estimate on Alternative Design

By Sean Wajert on January 14, 2015
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

A federal court in Texas recently rejected design defect claims in a product liability case when plaintiff failed to offer a required cost estimate fo…
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Court of Appeals Addresses Class-wide Arbitration Issue

By Sean Wajert on August 29, 2014
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Our loyal readers know that the decision whether a matter gets sent to arbitration, as opposed to being adjudicated through traditional litigation, ca…
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Amicus Weighs In On Daubert Issue in Court of Appeals

By Sean Wajert on November 13, 2012
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

The Product Liability Advisory Council weighed in as amicus earlier this month, asking the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a district court ruling that ha…
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Court of Appeals Compels Arbitration, Not Class Litigation

By Sean Wajert on January 26, 2012
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Products

The role of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms in alleged consumer product defect cases continues to be a hotly disputed issue. Plaintiff lawye…
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Proof of Feasible Alternative Design Does Not Prove Defect

By Sean Wajert on September 2, 2011
Posted in Articles

Readers know that most jurisdictions require that a plaintiff alleging a design defect in a product must produce sufficient evidence of a feasible alt…
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State Supreme Court Adopts Risk Utility Test for Defect

By Sean Wajert on August 23, 2010
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

The South Carolina Supreme Court last week vacated a $31 million verdict for a minor injured in a Ford Bronco rollover accident. Branham v. Ford Motor…
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