Working with an expert to support a product defect theory of liability is hard enough as it is. However, when the standard for strict liability is considered, properly supporting such a theory is even ...

Just before Christmas, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a lump of coal to products liability defendants: Sullivan v. Werner Co., 2023 WL 8859656 (Pa. Dec. 22, 2023), affirming a lower court ...

Time will tell whether Pennsylvania's jurisprudence stays the course or joins the pack allowing the defense of strict products liability cases to converge with negligence actions, and morph the ...

Any products liability defendant will attest to the importance of compliance with regulatory standards. Lack of such compliance would be a vulnerability, perhaps even resulting in negligence per se.