Law360, New York (June 09, 2008, 12:00 AM ET) -- A federal appeals court has partially affirmed a district court's ruling that a manufacturer's statutory duty to defend and indemnify distributors of allegedly defective goods — in this case, latex gloves — extends only to the makers' own products.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued the decision Monday in light of a Texas Supreme Court ruling that manufacturers can satisfy their statutory duty to sellers by offering to indemnify them only for costs associated with their own products....
Texas Law Limits Makers' Duty To Defend: 5th Circ.
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