Vannoy v. Uniroyal Tire Co.

The majority’s dramatic alteration of I.C. § 6-1401 et seq. — Idaho’s Product Liability Reform Act — ignores the plain wording of statutory law, abrogates the legislature’s intent, and usurps the legislature’s functions. On two accounts the majority has seriously erred in holding that it was error on the district court’s part in not allowing the jury to consider the conduct of Kelsey-Hayes and the Coats Company — two non-parties at trial. First, it was the legislature which declared the procedures in determining comparative responsibility in a products liability case, and the evidence at…