Omnetics, Inc. v. Radiant Technology Corp.

OPINION

EDWARD D. MULALLY, Acting Judge.

Omnetics, Inc. appeals the trial court’s order denying its motion for a new trial or judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV). Appellant sustained property damage when a laboratory immersion heater, manufactured by respondent Radiant Technology Corporation, overheated and started a fire on appellant’s premises. By special verdict, the jury determined that the heater was not defectively designed, but that respondent’s failure to provide adequate warnings or instructions for safe use rendered it in a defective condition unreasonably dangerous to the…