Fajardo v. Boston Scientific Corp.

LESLY FAJARDO ET AL. v. BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION ET AL. (SC 20455) Robinson, C. J., and Palmer, D’Auria, Mullins, Kahn and Ecker, Js.* Syllabus Pursuant to this court’s decision in Bifolck v. Philip Morris, Inc. ( 324 Conn. 402), under the risk-utility test, a product is in a defective condition that is unreasonably dangerous to the consumer if (1) a reasonable alternative design that would have avoided or reduced the risk of harm was available and the absence of that alternative design renders the product unreasonably dangerous, or (2) the product is a manifestly unreasonable design in…