Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. v. Arteaga

STRINE, Chief Justice, for the Majority:

I. INTRODUCTION

Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. (“Bell”), a Delaware corporation, appeals from a Su*1048perior Court order determining that Texas law should govern litigation involving a helicopter that crashed in Mexico on October 15, 2010. Despite the presumption in the Restatement (Second) of Conflicts that the law of the place where the injury occurred should govern the dispute,1 the Superior Court found that Texas law has the “most significant relationship” to the liability, damages, and remedies at issue. The court also opined that Texas law would be…