NISSAN MOTOR CO. LTD. v. NAVE

No. 1700, Sept. Term, 1998.

740 A.2d 102 (1999)

129 Md. App. 90

NISSAN MOTOR CO. LTD., et al. v. Judith A. NAVE et al.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

November 4, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel A. Dewey (Brigit M. Macksey and Piper & Marbury LLP, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellants.

J. Brooks Leahy (Kenneth Michael Williams and Dulany & Leahy, LLP, on the brief), Westminster, for appellees.

Hugh F. Young, Jr., Reston, VA, Michael T. Wharton, Julia R. Arfaa, Wharton Levin Ehrmantraut Klein & Nash, P.A., Annapolis, Amicus Curiae, for the Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc.

Harry B. Siegel, The Law Office of Joel Abramson, Columbia, George Tolley, III, Dugan and Jakubowski, Timonium, Amicus Curiae, for the Maryland Trial Lawyer's Ass'n.

Argued before MOYLAN, SALMON and ROBERT N. DUGAN (Specially Assigned), JJ.


SALMON, Judge.

On March 25, 1994, Donald Nave was driving a 1989 Nissan pickup truck when he crashed head-on into a jack-knifing tractor-trailer. The accident occurred near the intersection of Ridge and Braddock Roads in Carroll County, Maryland. As a result of the collision, Nave struck the pickup's steering assembly and sustained fatal chest injuries. Nave's estate and his surviving family members (appellees) filed suit...

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