Products Liability an ‘Unnerving New World’ Since ‘Tincher’
February 5, 2016
The Legal Intelligencer
Categories : General
Types : In the News
Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille had spent years working over the issue with his colleagues, trying to form a consensus. For nearly two decades, a question had been kicked around the state Supreme Court: Would Pennsylvania products liability law continue to follow the Restatement (Second) of Torts or would it update its standing and adopt the Third Restatement, published in 1998?
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Fifteen months later, uncertainty is the rule of the day, as a host of issues involving evidentiary matters, jury charges and available defenses have created what Jeremy Mishkin, a defense attorney at Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads, called an “unnerving new world.”
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