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eBook details
- Title: General Motors Corp. v. Farnsworth
- Author : California Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 16, 1998
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
Description
After experiencing near fatal injuries in a car accident, Kimberly Farnsworth sued General Motors (GM) in strict liability for designing a defective seat restraint system. Following a fiveweek trial, the jury returned a verdict for Farnsworth, awarding her $2,138,973 in compensatory damages and $5,600,000 in punitive damages. The superior court denied GMs motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict and a new trial, and GM appeals. We conclude that the superior court erred in rejecting a comparative negligence instruction and refusing to require the jury to allocate fault to the driver who caused the accident. Because they may have affected the jurys views of GMs liability, these two errors also impugn the finding of causation and certain aspects of the damages awards. However, we find no error tainting the jurys verdict that the seat restraint system was defective or its calculation of compensatory damages. We therefore remand for a new trial limited to the issues of comparative negligence, allocation of fault, causation, and punitive damages.
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