A federal judge has declined to grant summary judgment to BMW in a products ­liability case over a motorcycle that caught fire, because a jury may find the fire was preventable if a warning about the fire risk was present on the motorcycle itself.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy R. Rice of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied the summary judgment motion of defendants BMW of North America and BMW Motorrad USA, and granted in part a motion to preclude a plaintiff’s expert’s testimony.

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