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CALLES v. SCRIPTO-TOKAI CORP.

No. 101089.

864 N.E.2d 249 (2007)

224 Ill.2d 247

Susan CALLES, Independent Adm'r of the Estate of Jillian Calles, Deceased, and Indiv., Appellee, v. SCRIPTO-TOKAI CORPORATION et al., Appellants (Richard Fox et al., Appellees).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

February 16, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Freeborn, Michael P. Kornak, Patrick J. Woytek, of Freeborn & Peters, LLP, Chicago, Mark K. Suzumoto, Keith A. Sipprelle, of Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket, LLP, Santa Monica, California, Kenneth A. Peterson, of McGuire Woods, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for appellants.

Michael T. Reagan, of Herbolsheimer, Lannon, Henson, Duncan & Reagan, P.C., Ottawa, Thomas A. Demetrio, Margaret M. Power, Corboy & Demetrio, Chicago, for appellee Susan Calles.

Terrence M. Burns, Pamela Davis Gorcowski, John M. Steed, of Dykema Gossett, PLLC, Chicago, Charles E. Reiter III, Maywood, for appellees Richard Fox and Loyola University Medical Center.

Jeffrey S. Hebrank, Edwardsville, Michael L. Young, St. Louis, Missouri, both of Burroughs, Hepler, Broom, MacDonald, Hebrank & True, LLP, for amicus curiae Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel.

James P. Costello, Bruce R. Pfaff, Chicago, for amicus curiae Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.

Justice BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion:

In Illinois, two tests are employed when determining whether a product is unreasonably dangerous under a strict liability design-defect theory — the consumer-expectation test and the risk-utility test. In this case, we are asked to consider whether there is a "simple product" exception to the application of the risk-utility test. That is, we must decide whether a product which is deemed "simple...

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