Bernal v. Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corp.

Opinion

TAYLOR, J. *

Plaintiffs Morris and Rosie Bernal appeal from a judgment for Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation (Wolf) in their action for personal injuries. During Morris’s knee surgery, arthroscopic scissors distributed and warranted by Wolf broke, causing the injury. Plaintiffs’ case was predicated, in part, on a strict products liability theory for an allegedly defectively designed instrument, and on breach of warranty. On appeal, they raise instructional error. We reverse.

I

In March 1980, Wolf sold a pair of arthroscopic scissors to Mercy Hospital. In November 1984, Morris…