Does a manufacturer have a duty to warn of a particular risk?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Woods v. Davol, Inc., No. 16-cv-02616-KJM-CKD (E.D. Cal. 2017):
A manufacturer breaches its duty where it "did not warn of a particular risk for reasons which fell below the acceptable standard of care, i.e., what a reasonably prudent manufacturer would have known and warned about." Carlin v. Super. Court, 13 Cal. 4th 1104, 1112 (1996). Here, the complaint alleges defendants were aware of a growing number of
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