Legal Opinion
Rohde v. Smiths Medical
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided August 22, 2007No. 06-213PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KITE, Justice.
[T1] Mr. Rohde sued Smiths Medical d/b/a Sims Deltec, Inc. (Smiths Medical), the manufacturer of a venous access device which fractured after it was inserted into his chest to administer chemotherapy treatment, claiming the device was defective. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Smiths Medical because Mr. Rohde did not present evidence ruling out reasonable secondary causes of the fracture so as to establish that the device was defective under the inference of defect rule.
[12] We affirm.
ISSUES
[T3] Mr. Rohde articulated a single issue in his opening brief: 1
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