Banks v. ICI Americas, Inc.

Hunstein, Justice.

This is the second appearance of this case in this Court. In Banks v. ICI Americas, 264 Ga. 732 (450 SE2d 671) (1994) (hereinafter “Banks /”), we adopted a risk-utility analysis as the appropriate test for reaching the legal conclusion that a product’s design specifications were partly or totally defective. Id. at (1). We further concluded that plaintiffs1 were entitled to a new trial on their defective design claim against defendant ICI Americas2 and remanded the case to the Court of Appeals with direction that a new trial be granted unless such was precluded by that…