A Stroll Down Innovator Liability Memory Lane Results In Dismissals

Since Conte in 2008, we have not made a secret of our view that innovator liability is a bad idea, contrary to traditional tort law principles and to sound public policy. We, especially Bexis, may even be accused of being somewhat obsessed with chronicling the decisions, big and small, on this issue over close to a decade. We have kept a scorecard of the decisions and commemorated the one-hundredth decision. We tracked when the Alabama legislature got sick of the turbulent expansion by the courts and kept product liability limited to the product designed, manufactured, or sold/leased by the defendant. We have peppered our top and bottom ten lists with these decisions and we expect they will find places on our august enumerations for the eleventh year in a row this December.