KNOX v. METALFORMING, INC.

Nos. 18-1550 18-1551.

914 F.3d 685 (2019)

Stephen D. KNOX; Jean Knox, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. METALFORMING, INC., Defendant, Appellant, Schechtl Maschinenbau GmbH, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 30, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin R. Zimmermann , with whom Stacey L. Pietrowicz and Sugarman and Sugarman, P.C., Boston, MA, were on brief, for Stephen and Jean Knox.

Javier F. Flores , with whom Eric V. Skelly , Thaddeus M. Lenkiewicz , and Manning Gross & Massenburg LLP, Boston, MA, were on brief, for MetalForming, Inc.

Frederick W. Reif , with whom Marie E. Chafe , Cornell & Gollub, Boston, MA, Debra Tama , and Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP, New York, NY, were on brief, for Schechtl Maschinenbau GmbH.

Before Lynch, Stahl, and Barron, Circuit Judges.


Stephen Knox's hand was badly injured at his work at Cape Cod Copper (CCC) in October 2016 when he operated a machine that was manufactured by defendant Schechtl Maschinenbau GmbH, a German company. The machine had been sold to CCC by defendant MetalForming, Inc., an American company located in Georgia and Schechtl's U.S. distributor...

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