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· 8/5/1991

Welch v. Keene Corp.

Citations

  • 575 N.E.2d 766
  • 31 Mass. App. Ct. 157
  • 1991 Mass. App. LEXIS 544

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that, for a breach of warranty claim, “a manufacturer has a duty to warn only as to those dangers about which the manufacturer actually knew or about which it reasonably should have known”
  • applying substantial factor test to multiple defendants whose successive conduct led to the plaintiffs injuiy
  • “It is enough, however, to reach the jury that [the plaintiff] show that he worked with, or in close proximity to, the defendants’ asbestos products.”
  • “It is enough ... to reach the jury that [the plaintiff] show that [she] worked with, or in close proximity to, the defendants’ asbestos products”
  • simply because a witness’s testimony goes to the “ultimate issue” of the case does not make it inadmissible
  • simply because a witness’s testimony goes to the “ultimate issue” of the case does not make it inadmissible

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Judges: Smith, Porada, Greenberg

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