HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. v. MARCUS

No. 82-1341.

440 So.2d 373 (1983)

HONDA MOTOR COMPANY, LTD., a Japanese Corporation, and American Honda Motor Company, Inc., a Foreign Corporation, Appellants, v. David Paul MARCUS and Diana Rivera, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

As Amended on Motion for Clarification November 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murphy, Buschbom & Murphy, Coral Gables, Jay M. Smyser, Chicago, Ill., for appellants.

J. Arthur Hawkesworth, Jr., Podhurst, Orseck, Parks, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow & Olin and Joel D. Eaton, Miami, for appellees.

Before HENDRY, NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

A jury rendered a verdict against Honda Motor Company, Ltd. and American Honda Motor Company, Inc. (jointly, Honda), finding both of these defendants to be strictly liable and to have breached an implied warranty of merchantability which resulted in damages to the plaintiff Diana Rivera. The jury assessed Rivera's damages at three million dollars, but found her to be ten per cent responsible for her own injuries, solely because of her failure...

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