Bell v. Jet Wheel Blast, Div. of Ervin Industries

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that in a negligence action, \a plaintiff's claim for damages [cannot] be barred totally because of his negligence. At most his claim may be reduced in proportion to his fault.\
• explaining that in a negligence action, “a plaintiffs claim for damages [cannot] be barred totally because of his negligence. At most his claim may be reduced in proportion to his fault.”
• \Reduction of the plaintiffs award in this type of case would only tend to defeat the basic goals of strict products liability doctrine by reducing economic incentive for product quality control and by forcing the injured individual to underwrite a loss himself....\
• applying comparative fault to some strict products liability cases
• \Reduction of the plaintiff's award in this type of case would only tend to defeat the basic goals of strict products liability doctrine by reducing economic incentive for product quality control and by forcing the injured individual to underwrite a loss himself. . . .\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).