Legal Opinion
Judith Wurster v. The Plastics Group
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 25, 2019No. 17-2698PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ERICKSON, Circuit Judge.
*611 James Wurster ("Mr. Wurster") suffered fatal burns when a gas can manufactured by Appellee The Plastics Group, Inc. ("TPG") exploded as he was burning garbage on his farm in Iowa. His wife, Judith Wurster ("Mrs. Wurster"), filed suit, both in her personal capacity and in representative capacity for the estate and heirs-at-law, against TPG. After trial, a jury rendered a take-nothing verdict under Iowa's comparative fault scheme, finding TPG forty-five percent at fault for Mr. Wurster's death due to its failure to provide adequate warnings on the gas can and…
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