· 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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