Shelbyville Mutual Insurance v. Sunbeam Leisure Products Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE LEWIS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Shelbyville Mutual Insurance Company (insurance company), appeals from the trial court’s orders granting motions to bar evidence and for summary judgment in favor of defendant, Sunbeam Leisure Products Company (Sunbeam). The issue raised by this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion by barring plaintiffs from presenting certain evidence in their product liability case. For reasons we will more fully explain, we affirm the orders of the trial court.

Plaintiffs, M. Lyle Sims and E. Lorene Sims (Mr. and Mrs.…