#ACIProducts Automotive Product Liability Litigation Recalls: How They are Impacting Class Actions; Litigation Strategy to Defeat Class Claims; Recall-Based Rule 23 Arguments; Mootness; and More June 4 - 5, 2014 Tweeting about this conference? S. Vance Wittie Special Counsel Sedgwick LLP Dallas, Texas Michelle I. Schaffer Shareholder Campbell, Campbell Edwards & Conroy PC Boston, Massachusetts Barry I. Buchman Partner Gilbert LLP Paul E. Wojcicki Shareholder Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd.
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#ACIProducts
Automotive Product Liability Litigation
Recalls: How They are Impacting Class Actions; Litigation
Strategy to Defeat Class Claims; Recall-Based Rule 23 Arguments; Mootness; and More
June 4 - 5, 2014
Tweeting about this conference?
S. Vance Wittie
Special Counsel Sedgwick LLP Dallas, Texas
Michelle I. Schaffer
Shareholder Campbell, Campbell Edwards & Conroy PC Boston, Massachusetts
Barry I. Buchman
Partner
Gilbert LLP
Paul E. Wojcicki
Shareholder
Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd.
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Automotive Product Liability Litigation
Vehicle Recalls Common Law and Regulatory Environment
S. Vance Wittie Special Counsel Sedgwick LLP Dallas, Texas
June 4 - 5, 2014
Tweeting about this conference?
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Administrative Recalls
•Determination of Defect or Noncompliance
•Notification of Recall
•Recall Implementation
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Common Law Issues
•Post Sale Duty to Warn
•Duty to Recall/Retrofit
•Court-ordered Recalls
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Post-Sale Duty to Warn (Per Third Restatement)
•Negligence-based theory (reasonable person)
• Seller knows or should know of substantial risk
•Recipients of warning can be identified and can be assumed to be unaware of the risk
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Post-Sale Duty to Warn (Per Third Restatement)
•Warning can be effectively communicated and acted upon
•Risk of harm sufficiently great to justify burden
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Duty to Recall or Retrofit
• Third Restatement limits application to where governmental directive specifically requires recall or seller undertakes to recall product and fails to act as reasonable person
•Negligent recall claims may be based on design or implementation of campaign
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Duty to Recall or Retrofit
•No general retrofit duty based on safety improvements
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Court-Ordered Recalls
•Question of Primary Jurisdiction— Should Court Defer to Administrative Agency?
•Question of Preemption— Does court action unduly interfere with administrative policies?
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Court-Ordered Recalls
•Question of Judicial Authority— Does court have competence to order relief, especially in other states?
•Question of Superiority— Is a court-ordered injunction a superior remedy?