Carmical v. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• manufacturer may be liable for negligent design so long as “the productos] design has [not] been independently altered, eliminated or replaced by a third party after the sale of the product”
• manufacturer may be liable for negligent design so long as “the product[’s] design has [not] been independently altered, eliminated or replaced by a third party after the sale of the product”
• “To prevail in a Georgia products liability action, whether based on negligence or strict liability, a plaintiff must show that the proximate cause of the injury was a defect which existed when the product was sold”
• “To prevail in a Georgia products liability action, whether based on negligence or strict liability, a plaintiff must show that the proximate cause of the injury was a defect which existed when the product was sold”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).