Legal Opinion
Slater v. Republic-Vanguard Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 17, 2011No. 10-2754PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
LCI Equipments, Inc. (“LCI”), a Texas corporation, imported and sold a Yanmar tractor that had been manufactured and used in Japan and then rebuilt in Vietnam. Rudy Slater subsequently purchased the tractor at auction and was killed in a rollover accident while driving it. His wife, Arkansas resident Wanda Slater, commenced a wrongful death action in state court, asserting negligence and strict product liability claims against LCI and others, focused primarily on the tractor’s lack of a roll-over protection system (“ROPS”). LCI’s insurer, Republic-Vanguard Insurance…
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