Appellate Practice,
California Supreme Court,
Civil Litigation
Jan. 17, 2018
Product liability decision hits hard, but may not reach far
Just before Christmas, the California Supreme Court ruled that a product manufacturer can be liable for harms caused by a product someone else made and sold, and for warnings given by that someone else to a user with whom the manufacturer never had any relationship.
Don Willenburg
Partner
Gordon & Rees LLP
appellate law, litigation, special master
1111 Broadway Ste 1700
Oakland , CA 94607
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Email: dwillenburg@grsm.com
Stanford Univ Law School
Don is chair of the firm's Appellate Practice Group in Oakland, and an attorney member of the Information Technology Advisory Committee to the Judicial Council. The views expressed are his own.
Just before Christmas, the California Supreme Court ruled that a product manufacturer can be liable for harms caused by a product someone else made and sold, and for warnings given by that someone else to a user with whom the manufacturer never had any relationship. Even selling the product line to another doesn't cut off liability.
As with many decisions, T.H. v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., 2017 DJDA...
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