Koken v. Black & Veatch Construction, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding factual evidence did not support a finding that the damage would not have occurred if the alternative warning had been provided
• holding in product liability claims after fire blanket failed during torch-cutting operation, engineering expert’s opinion that there should have been warning on blanket was unreliable because expert did not explain any underlying methodology to support opinion
• applying Maine law and granting summary judgment to the defendant on plaintiff's failure-to-warn claim because there was no evidence regarding the possible consequences of the plaintiff's proposed alternative warning
• “The question is not the subjective expectations of the particular user, but the reasonable expectations of an ordinary user or purchaser.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).