Products Liability

In ruling on a raft of motions in limine in a products liability suit, a Clarion County trial judge said “considerable confusion” has been created by the state Supreme Court's 2014 decision in Tincher v. Omega Flex, which said Pennsylvania would continue to follow the Restatement (Second) of Torts.

Clarion County Court of Common Pleas President Judge James G. Arner, in an opinion last month in Sliker v. National Feeding Systems, applied Tincher in allowing the defendants to present evidence of negligence and affirmative defenses of assumption of risk. He also pointed to the “significant uncertainty” created by Tincher's disavowal of the Supreme Court's 1978 ruling in Azzarello v. Black Brothers.