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KRAMER v. PETROLEUM HELICOPTERS, INC.

No. 08-133.

999 So.2d 101 (2008)

Kent Louis KRAMER, Jr., et al. v. PETROLEUM HELICOPTERS, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Broussard, Broussard & David, Lafayette, LA, Clayton A.L. Davis, Lundy & Davis, Lake Charles, LA, Tony B. Jobe, Madisonville, LA, for Appellant/Plaintiff, Janice McLaud.

S. Gene Fendler, Don K. Haycraft, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, Jamie D. Rhymes, Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, LA, for Appellees/Defendants, Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH, American Eurocopter Corporation, Messserschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm.

Kenneth Hugh Laborde, Leo Raymond McAloon, III, Pulaski, Gieger & LaBorde, New Orleans, LA, for Appellees/Defendants, United States Aircraft Insurance Group, Janice McLaud, Employers Insurance of Wausau.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge, JOHN D. SAUNDERS and MARC T. AMY, Judges.

AMY, Judge.

The plaintiff's husband was killed when the helicopter he was piloting crashed. She filed suit against the helicopter's manufacturer, alleging that the crash occurred when the pendulum weight mount to one of the helicopter's four rotor blades detached due to internal, composite material fatigue. The trial court granted the manufacturer's motion for involuntary dismissal, finding that the plaintiff failed to establish the existence of an unreasonably dangerous...

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