What is the test for a tortfeasor to be held liable for injuries sustained by a plaintiff in a motor vehicle accident?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Trapp v. Certainteed Corp., H043867 (Cal. App. 2018):

impose strict liability. It is the defendant's participatory connection, for his personal profit or other benefit, with the injury-producing product and with the enterprise that created consumer demand for and reliance upon the product . . . which calls for imposition of strict liability." (Kasel v. Remington Arms Co. (1972) 24 Cal.App.3d 711, 725.)

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