In Gaudio v. Ford Motor Co., PICS No. 07-1066 (C.P. Pike June 14, 2007), Thomson, J. Judge Harold A. Thomson, Jr. of the Pike County Court of Common Pleas addressed the ambit of the so-called “seat belt defense” as applied to products liability actions.
Thomson’s suggestion that the defense may be able to be utilized in a limited fashion in certain cases raises a question as to the continuing validity of the legislative bar against the use of the “seat belt defense” in all civil matters.
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