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Malcolm v. Evenflo Co., Inc.
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Chad and Jessica Malcolm (plaintiffs) filed a strict products liability claim against Evenflo Company, Inc. (defendant), alleging that their On My Way child safety seat contained a design defect that led to the death of their four month old during a car accident. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the open-ended belt hook design and lack of expanded polystyrene padding allowed the seat belt to slip out of the hook and eject the safety seat from the vehicle during the accident. Upon receiving the seat from a friend, the plaintiffs had called and been assured by the defendant that the seat model 207 was safe, claiming that this model had passed the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) test. The plaintiffs filed a motion in limine to exclude the evidence of the FMVSS, but did present evidence at trial that the defendant’s seat model 206 had been recalled and experienced test failures.
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