· 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
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- 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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