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BROWN v. CROWN EQUIPMENT CORP.

181 S.W.3d 268 (2005)

Charles BROWN, et al. v. CROWN EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, a/k/a Crown Equipment Corp.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

October 27, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerson H. Smoger, Dallas, Texas, J. Brent Austin, Lexington, Kentucky, Lisa June Cox, Jackson, Tennessee, and Robert David Strickland, Martin, Tennessee, for the appellants, Charles Brown, Barbara Sue Reynolds, and Howard Reynolds.

Adam T. Sampson and Thomas J. Cullen, Jr., Baltimore, Maryland, and Shannon Edward Holbrook and William W. Dunlap, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellee, Crown Equipment Corporation a/k/a Crown Equipment.

Andrew Lawrence Berke and Megan C. England, Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the amicus curiae, Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association.

OPINION

JANICE M. HOLDER, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which WILLIAM M. BARKER, C.J., and FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, E. RILEY ANDERSON, and ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., JJ., joined.

We granted appeal in this products liability action to determine whether the trial court erred in excluding as unreliable the testimony of the plaintiffs' two expert witnesses, a mechanical engineer and a biomechanical engineer, and thereafter granting a directed verdict...

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