LaChance v. Les Schwab Warehouse Center, Inc.

Plaintiffs appeal the judgment entered after the trial court granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment and dismissed plaintiffs’ personal injury and loss of consortium claims on the basis of issue preclusion. We reverse.

Plaintiff Gary LaChance was involved in a motor vehicle accident in which he was the driver of one vehicle. Two persons in the other vehicle were killed. A wrongful death action was tried in Columbia County; plaintiff Gary and defendants here were co-defendants.1 The plaintiff in that case alleged that defendants had negligently repaired a tire on the vehicle that Gary…