DONZE v. GENERAL MOTORS, LLC

Opinion No. 27719.

420 S.C. 8 (2017)

800 S.E.2d 479

Reid Harold DONZE, Plaintiff, v. GENERAL MOTORS, LLC, Defendant.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Filed May 17, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronnie L. Crosby and Austin H. Crosby , both of Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick, of Hampton; Bert G. Utsey, III , of Peters, Murdaugh, Parker, Eltzroth & Detrick, of Walterboro; S. Kirkpatrick Morgan, Jr. and Charles T. Slaughter , both of Walker & Morgan, LLC, of Lexington; and Kathleen C. Barnes , of Barnes Law Firm, LLC, of Hampton, all for Plaintiff.

Joel H. Smith , Angela G. Strickland and Kevin J. Malloy , all of Bowman & Brooke, LLP, of Columbia; David G. Owen , of Law Center, of Columbia; John M. Thomas and Jill M. Wheaton , both of Dykema Gossett, of Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Michael P. Cooney , of Dykema Gossett, PLLC, of Detroit, Michigan, all for Defendants.

Henry B. Smythe, Jr. and Dana W. Lang , both of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, of Charleston, for Amicus Curiae, The Products Liability Advisory Council, Inc.

Steve A. Matthews , of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, PA, of Columbia; Phil Goldberg and Victor E. Schwartz , both of Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP, of Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Inc.


CERTIFIED QUESTION

This case concerns the applicability of comparative negligence to strict liability and breach of warranty claims in a crashworthiness case brought by Plaintiff Reid Harold Donze against Defendant General Motors ("GM"). District Judge Timothy M. Cain of the...

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