Peters v. Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc.

PUDLOWSKI, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal of a judgment in accord with a jury verdict. The appellant alleged that his mother, Sheri Peters, died on November 27, 1983,as a result of contracting toxic shock syndrome (TSS) from her use of respondents’ defective o.b. tampon.

The transcript reveals that the appellant prior to trial discarded his theories of negligence and pursued his cause of action on the sole theory of a defective commodity in a strict product liability claim. Before we address appellant’s numerous claims of trial court error, we are reminded of our Supreme Court’s admonition…