Green v. Smith & Nephew AHP, Inc.

¶ 1. Smith & Nephew AHP, Inc., appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict against it on the products-liability claim of Linda M. Green. Green claimed, and the jury found, that latex gloves manufactured by Smith & Nephew were defective and unreasonably dangerous, and were a cause of damages she suffered as a result of her allergic reaction to them. In light of evidence that a connection between latex gloves and the type of allergic reaction suffered by Green was essentially not known when Smith & Nephew made the latex gloves that she used, Green did not argue before the trial court, and…