CANADIAN COURT ALLOWS CLASS-ACTION CASE ON FIRE LIABILITY
Ragoonanan v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.
A court in Ontario, Canada, has kept alive a lawsuit by representatives of victims who died in fires caused by unextinguished cigarettes, finding that the “risk-utility theory” of liability for the defective design of a product is a plausible theory...
CANADIAN COURT ALLOWS CLASS-ACTION CASE ON FIRE LIABILITY
Ragoonanan v. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd.