Damian v. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.

I. INTRODUCTION

In its second issue, Appellee Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. argues that the trial court erred by submitting question 6, the design defect question, to the jury. Specifically, Bell claims, and the Majority Opinion holds, that Bill Hinds’s testimony is the only evidence in the record that a safer alternative windshield design was feasible in .1997 when the Bell 407 helicopter at issue was manufactured. I cannot agree that Hinds’s testimony is the only evidence supporting the feasibility of the safer alternative design element of the windshield design defect claim asserted against…