Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1988
Publication Information
14 William Mitchell Law Review 443 (1988)
Abstract
The Minnesota law of products liability underwent significant changes in the 1980s. The courts filled in gaps left open since the Minnesota Supreme Court initially adopted strict liability in McCormack v. Hankscraft Co.' in 1967, but they also raised new issues and left other issues open. This Article analyzes these developments in Minnesota products liability law. The broad focus is on standards in design and warning cases. In the course of the analysis, the Article focuses on the issues that had been left unsettled in Minnesota law in those areas. The Article first addresses the elements of a strict liability claim and then analyzes the standards in design defect and failure to warn cases, and finally, briefly comments on the relationship between design defect and warning claims.
Repository Citation
Steenson, Michael K., "Products Liability Law in Minnesota: Design Defect and Failure to Warn Claims" (1988). Faculty Scholarship. 63.
https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/facsch/63