Liriano v. Hobart Corp.
Citation
92 N.Y.2d 232 (1998)
Facts
Stub — to be completed.
Issue
Stub — to be completed.
Holding
Stub — to be completed.
Rule
A failure-to-warn claim can go to the jury even without direct evidence that the plaintiff read or would have heeded the warning, if a warning was legally required and the risk materialized; the burden shifts to the defendant to show the warning would not have been heeded.
Significance
Relaxed the causation requirement in failure-to-warn cases; Calabresi opinion on warning adequacy and the heeding presumption.