Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority v. Rouse

Thompson, Justice.

We granted a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Rouse v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth., 266 Ga. App. 619 (597 SE2d 650) (2004), and posed this question: Does the requirement that common carriers exercise “extraordinary diligence to protect the lives and persons of their passengers” impose a duty upon those carriers to stay informed of safety advances in product design and to buy and incorporate those safety advances into previously-purchased, non-defective products?

Leslie Rouse was injured when her foot became entrapped under the comb plate of an…