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· 3/14/1997

Town of Bridport v. Sterling Clark Lurton Corp.

Citations

  • 693 A.2d 701
  • 166 Vt. 304
  • 1997 Vt. LEXIS 22

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that “one factor in determining the adequacy of a warning is its conspicuousness on a label”
  • deciding that the inadequacy of a warning that the plaintiff did not read could be the proximate cause of the plaintiffs injury if the warning was inadequate in its ability “to draw the attention of a reasonably prudent person”
  • to succeed on failure-to-warn claim, plaintiff must show that “failure to warn made the product unreasonably dangerous and therefore defective”
  • to succeed on failure-to-warn claim, plaintiff must show that \failure to warn made the product unreasonably dangerous and therefore defective\
  • to succeed on failure-to-warn claim, plaintiff must show that \failure to warn made the product unreasonably dangerous and therefore defective\
  • “where a warning has been provided by a manufacturer, ordinarily the sufficiency of that warning is a question for the jury”

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Judges: Allen, Gibson, Dooley, Morse, Johnson

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