Anderson v. Siemens Corporation

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. (“Siemens”), a corporation that sells and distributes medical devices, appeals from a jury’s verdict finding it liable, under a strict products liability (design defect) theory, to Sandra Jo Anderson (“Petitioner”) and the estate of her late husband, Billy D. Anderson (“Decedent”), for damages resulting from the stroke, in 1996, ¿nd subsequent death, in 1998, allegedly caused by the Siemens Servo 900C ventilator (“the ventilator”) used on Decedent following his 1996 cardiac bypass surgery. 1

Siemens argues that there was insufficient…