Law360, New York (July 14, 2009) -- Ruling that a product's characteristic ingredient cannot constitute a claim of defective design, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has affirmed a lower court's dismissal of strict liability and negligence claims against white lead carbonate pigment manufacturers including the Sherwin-Williams Co. and DuPont Co.
The court on Tuesday affirmed a circuit court's ruling that the complaint had failed to allege a design feature that rendered defective the design of white carbonate lead pigment, which...
