In re Glassman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that liability in a design-defeet case requires a balancing of “the product’s risks against its utility and costs and against the risks, utility and cost of the alternatives”
• holding that the reasonableness of a manufacturer’s steps in addressing users of a product’s newly discovered dangers is a fact question for the jury
• holding that such compliance is relevant to determining whether a provided warning was defective
• \The manufacturer and the vendor do not necessarily have the same obligation to warn concerning dangers learned of after delivery of the product ....\
• “The manufacturer and the vendor do not necessarily have the same obligation to warn concerning dangers learned of after delivery of the product . . . .”
• “Although a product [can] be reasonably safe when manufactured and sold and involve no then known risks of which warning need be given, risks thereafter revealed by user operation and brought to the attention of the manufacturer or vendor may impose upon one or both a duty to warn”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).