Adhesive maker Henkel Corp. won’t face liability for alleged injuries to a consumer from glue fumes, after the Seventh Circuit found insufficient expert evidence (Cripe v. Henkel Corp., 7th Cir., 17-CV-01231, 6/7/17).
The sole expert for Gregory Cripe, a specialist in the language of warnings, offered no opinion whether Henkel’s product caused Cripe’s injuries, the court said.
Reports of treating physicians attached to the expert’s report did not transform the physicians into experts, the court said.
The physicians were not designated as experts and their reports didn’t discuss causation, the court said.
Rather, the physicians merely summarized Cripe’s ...
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