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LECY v. BAYLINER MARINE CORP.

No. 40104-1-I.

973 P.2d 1110 (1999)

Karen LECY, Individually and as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Henry E. Lecy, Deceased, Respondent, v. BAYLINER MARINE CORPORATION, Appellant. Marco Bacich, Jr. and Pamela Bacich, Respondents, v. Bayliner Marine Corporation, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

April 5, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. King, John S. Devlin III, Lane Powell Spears Lubersky, LLP, Seattle, for Appellant Bayliner Marine Corp. Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP.

George J. Koelzer, Joshua S. Force, Hancock Rothert & Bunshoft LLP, for Appellant Bayliner Marine Corp., Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft LLP.

Keith C. Thomson, Clinton, Fleck & Glein, Guy W. Becker, Seattle, Nikolai Tehin, Michael E. Brown, Tehin & Partners, San Francisco, CA, for Respondents.

COX, J.

Under admiralty law, there is generally a distinction between product liability theories based on strict liability and negligence.1 But under the facts of this case, there is no practical distinction between these two theories as applied to the design of the boat door system that is the focus of the claims. The jury verdict here that there was no defective product design of the door system established, as a matter of law, that...

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