Litigation & Arbitration
Jul. 28, 2023
Goldberg Segalla wins defense verdict in pressure cooker defect suit
Senior U.S. Judge Larry Alan Burns of the Southern District of California instructed the jury to use either the Consumer Expectation Test or Risk-Utility Test when determining the plaintiff’s design defect claim.




Goldberg Segalla wins defense verdict in pressure cooker defect suit
A federal jury in San Diego returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the defendant in a product liability lawsuit, finding that the plaintiff’s injuries were not caused by a defect in a pressure cooker she was using when her accident happened.
Latanya Jenkins alleged in her lawsuit that the pressure cooker lid spontaneously blew off under ...
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