Kearl v. Lederle Laboratories

Opinion

SABRAW, J.

Defendant, Lederle Laboratories, appeals from a judgment for plaintiff after a jury determined defendant’s polio vaccine was defective and caused plaintiff to contract that disease. We reverse the judgment.

Although defendant raises numerous grounds for reversal—erroneous evidentiary rulings, misconduct on the part of the trial judge, inconsistency of verdicts, denial of due process, and erroneous application of strict products liability law to the facts of this case—we need address only the latter issue here, We hold that although in standard products liability litigation a…