Little v. Reed-Prentice Division of Package Machinery Co.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

EARL E. O’CONNOR, Chief Judge.

This matter comes before the court on plaintiff’s motion for leave to amend the complaint. Plaintiff James H. Little (hereinafter “Little”) seeks to add a claim for punitive damages. Little lost his fingers and part of the thumb on his left hand as a result of the allegedly defective and unreasonably dangerous condition of a molding machine designed, manufactured, and sold by defendant Reed-Prentice Division of Package Machinery Company (hereinafter “Reed-Prentice”). Reed-Prentice argues that Little has not made a sufficient showing to obtain…