{"id":269,"date":"2019-03-21T11:36:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/?p=269"},"modified":"2019-03-21T11:36:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:36:42","slug":"scotus-rejects-bare-metal-defense-in-products-liability-cases-under-maritime-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2019\/03\/21\/scotus-rejects-bare-metal-defense-in-products-liability-cases-under-maritime-law\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Rejects Bare-Metal Defense in Products Liability Cases Under Maritime Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 19, 2019, the United States Supreme Court took a middle-ground approach in deciding when, under federal maritime law, a \u201cbare-metal\u201d manufacturer is liable for failure to warn of dangers posed by parts used with its products, even though they are made by other manufacturers. Rejecting both a \u201cforeseeability\u201d standard and the \u201cbare metal defense,\u201d the 6-3 majority in\u00a0<i>Air &amp; Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries<\/i>\u00a0held that \u201c[i]n the maritime tort context, a product manufacturer has a duty to warn when (i) its product requires incorporation of a part, (ii) the manufacturer knows or has reason to know that the integrated product is likely to be dangerous for its intended uses, and (iii) the manufacturer has no reason to believe that the product\u2019s users will realize that danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/supreme_court_rejects_bare-metal_defense_products_liability_case_maritime_law_0319.html\">Read the full Duane Morris LLP <em>Alert<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 19, 2019, the United States Supreme Court took a middle-ground approach in deciding when, under federal maritime law, a \u201cbare-metal\u201d manufacturer is liable for failure to warn of dangers posed by parts used with its products, even though they are made by other manufacturers. Rejecting both a \u201cforeseeability\u201d standard and the \u201cbare metal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/2019\/03\/21\/scotus-rejects-bare-metal-defense-in-products-liability-cases-under-maritime-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SCOTUS Rejects Bare-Metal Defense in Products Liability Cases Under Maritime Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[222,131,219,220,205,223,117,140,221,75],"ppma_author":[238],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-alyson-walker-lotman","tag-andrew-sperl","tag-bare-metal-defense","tag-foreseeability","tag-maritime-law","tag-products-liability","tag-robert-palumbos","tag-scotus","tag-sharon-caffrey","tag-supreme-court"],"authors":[{"term_id":238,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/appellatelaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}