Atkins v. General Motors Corp.

Fain, Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants, Emma and Myron Atkins, appeal from a summary judgment rendered in favor of defendant-appellee, General Motors Corporation (“GM”), with respect to Mrs. Atkin’s products liability action, involving the hinges on the side cargo door of the Atkinses’ GM-manufactured van, and Mr. Atkin’s derivative loss of consortium claim. The Atkinses assert that the trial court erred by granting summary judgment to GM on the basis that expert testimony was needed to establish the material elements of a products liability claim in this case, because the hinges at issue are…