World Hospitality Ltd. v. Shell Offshore, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing potential relevance of similar accidents to questions of notice, ability to correct, causation, etc.
• district court abused discretion by refusing to admit evidence of prior accidents where the accidents were not “too remote” and plaintiff’s expert testified that circumstances resulting in the prior accidents were “virtually identical”
• “Evidence of similar accidents might be relevant to the defendant's notice, magnitude of the danger involved, the defendant's ability to correct a known defect, the lack of safety for intended uses, strength of a product, the standard of care, and causation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).