Snyder v. LTG Lufttechnische GmbH

DROWOTA, Justice.

QUESTIONS CERTIFIED

Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1 this Court has accepted two questions certified to us by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The questions are as follows:

1. Whether products liability defendants in a suit for personal injuries based on allegations of negligence and strict liability in tort may introduce evidence at trial that the plaintiffs employer’s alteration, change, improper maintenance, or abnormal use of the defendants’ product proximately caused or contributed to the…