Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases Jim and Carrie Carroll at Carroll and Carroll, P.C. represent the injured people of Pennsylvania and New York in Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga, Susquehanna, and Chemung counties in personal injury, premises liability, slip and fall, automobile accident and workers’ compensation cases
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    7/14/2008
    James R. Carroll, Jr., Esquire
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    New case law on signing releases in complex cases

    On July 7, in Ford Motor Company v. Buseman, the Superior Court reversed a trial court order denying a Motion for Summary Judgment in a products liability case resulting from a tragic car accident in which a Ford Explorer rolled over.

    A federal lawsuit was filed against the driver and settled with two insurance companies for general releases. A separate state action was filed against Ford Motor for defective design. After the federal lawsuit was settled, Ford filed a Motion for Summary Judgment arguing that the execution of broad releases in the federal lawsuit that released "all other firms, person," etc. released the parties to the state suit.

    The Superior Court holds that (at most) this is a unilateral mistake and the releases (without any limitations or indications that the state lawsuit parties were not released) were broad enough to effectively release the product defendants. The trial court was reversed.

    See the Court's full opinion here.


    Labels: case law crashworthiness defective products release rollover accident settlement


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