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Commercial Products

• Connecticut recognizes independent tort of intentional spoliation of evidence

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Consumer Products

• Comparative fault principles apply to participants in production chain of allegedly defective product

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Drugs

• Plaintiff raised fact question as to whether manufacturer failed to adequately warn of drug’s long-term use risk

• Common law claims alleging injuries from diabetes drug Rezulin are not preempted

• Federal jurisdiction lacking where manufacturer failed to prove “federal officer” provision applied

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Industrial Products & Equipment

• Failure to recall defendant’s name, product did not shift burden to plaintiff to show causation fact question

• Inadequate instructions warning against placing foot pedal underneath lift table on scissors lift

• Negligent exposure of worker to asbestos

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Medical Products & Equipment

• Plaintiff raised fact questions regarding whether nerve lesioning device was unreasonably dangerous

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Recreational Products

• Sophisticated user doctrine applies in case against bungee cord manufacturer

• Negligent distribution, sale of defective ski

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Transportation

• Pickup truck’s seat belt fails to unlatch during rollover

• Defective cruise control system in SUV

• Defective design using unrecessed toggle power window switch in SUV

• Dangerous location of fuel tank outside pickup truck’s frame rails

• Insufficient roof strength, occupant restraint system in SUV

• Plaintiffs may rely on circumstantial evidence in case alleging defective design of cruise control system

• Lack of nylon cap on SUV’s tires

• Defective design where pickup truck’s roof lacks B-pillar

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