Jeffrey F Laffey

February 28, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

As a result of the court's ruling, defense attorneys will continue to be barred from introducing evidence of compliance with industry or government standards—not for lack of effort—and plaintiffs lawyers will be able to sharpen their arguments to focus on whether a product was defectively designed, without any fear of notions of "compliance" muddying the jury's focus at trial.

By Jeffrey F. Laffey

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January 16, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

In holding that compliance evidence is inadmissible, the Superior Court in Sullivan acknowledges the real possibility that the entire industry may be defective and thus, evidence that the product in question complied with industry standards is of no import.

By Jeffrey F. Laffey

7 minute read