On March 26, the Florida Supreme Court authorized proposed changes to the standard jury instructions pertaining to product liability cases. The new instructions will serve as the model for all products liability cases tried under Florida law from the date of the opinion.
The instructions provide separate definitions and instructions for manufacturing defect and design defect. Instruction 403.7 retains the consumer expectation and risk-utility tests for defining a design defect.
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