Yeanna Woo v. General Electric Company

¶ 1 As a general rule under common law and strict liability principles, a manufacturer does not have a duty to warn of the hazards of a product the manufacturer did not place in the stream of commerce. But there are exceptions to this general rule. Yuen Wing Woo worked as an engineer for the navy and on military transportation ships in the 1940s and 1950s. Woo died of mesothelioma. The personal representative of the Estate of Yuen Wing Woo, Yeanna Woo, and Woo’s surviving spouse, Jean Oi Woo (collectively the Estate), filed a wrongful death and per sonal injury lawsuit against General…