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· 11/30/1999

Kopczick v. Hobart Corp.

Citations

  • 721 N.E.2d 769
  • 308 Ill. App. 3d 967
  • 242 Ill. Dec. 490
  • 1999 Ill. App. LEXIS 826

How courts have described this case

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  • reversing award of punitive damages where 30 prior incidents reflected roughly 0.5% of production and 0.0000007% of estimated number of uses (cuts of meat)
  • reversing award of punitive damages where 30 prior incidents reflected roughly 0.5% of production and 0.0000007% of estimated number of uses (cuts of meat)
  • reversing award of punitive damages where 30 prior incidents reflected roughly 0.5% of production and 0.0000007% of estimated number of uses (cuts of meat)
  • “In the context of a products liability claim, a manufacturer’s awareness that its product is unreasonably dangerous coupled with a failure to act to reduce the risk amounts to willful and wanton conduct.”
  • hand injuries sustained in using a meat-cutting saw
  • hand injuries sustained in using a meat-cutting saw

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Judges: Slater

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