Jackson v. General Motors Corp.

OPINION

FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which E. RILEY ANDERSON, ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., JANICE M. HOLDER, WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined.

Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1 this Court accepted certification of the following question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit:

In a products liability action under Tennessee law, may the plaintiff use the “consumer expectation test” to prove that his seatbelt/restraint system was unreasonably dangerous because it failed to conform to the safety standards…