Lazzaro v. Huffy Corp.

Michele M. Lazzaro, administrator of the estate of two-and-one-half-year-old Anna Scherp, appeals from a determination of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, which utilized the doctrine of forum non conveniens and dismissed her product liability claim for wrongful death against Gerry Baby Products and Huffy Corporation, resulting from use of defective suction cups on a splash seat causing it to tip forward while Anna was bathing and precipitating her death by drowning. For the following reasons, we vacate the dismissal and remand the case to common pleas court for transfer of the matter…