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GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. LUPICA

Record No. 860897.

379 S.E.2d 311 (1989)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION v. Peter J. LUPICA, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 21, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Farnham (Robert C. Rice, Jeffrey A. Standen, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, on briefs), for appellant.

Montgomery Knight, Jr., Norfolk, William R. O'Brien, Virginia Beach, (William L. Dudley, Jr., W. Robert Turner, III, Michael F. Bergan, Fay F. Spence, Knight, Dudley, Pincus, Dezern & Clarke, Norfolk on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.

STEPHENSON, Justice.

Peter J. Lupica and Luann K. Roane filed separate actions against General Motors Corporation (General Motors) to recover compensatory and punitive damages for injuries they sustained when Lupica's 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo automobile left Interstate Highway 64 and struck a tree. Both plaintiffs alleged that General Motors negligently designed the power steering system of the automobile, that the steering system was, therefore, defective, and...

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