Piper v. Bear Medical Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• \Determining whether a warning is adequate to apprise users of dangers in the product is ordinarily a question for the trier of fact.\
• distinguishing between a general warning of danger and a failure to properly instruct user how to avoid the danger
• jury may find design defect based upon violation of ANSI standards, even though a foreseeable modification has been made
• jury may find design defect based upon violation of ANSI standards, even though a foreseeable modification has been made
• evidence that manufacturer could foresee that untrained nurses as well as respiratory therapists would have access to ventilator may show design was defective
• “[pjroximate causation ... is generally a jury question.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).