Attorneys who represent people injured by allegedly defective products face a hurdle to recovery when the product is made up of a number of different component parts, all manufactured by various defendants. The news generally is not good for plaintiffs: Strict products liability is limited for component-part manufacturers when the component part is integrated into the final product before distribution.
The law favors businesses that make parts that go into a final product. In Bostrom Seating Inc. v. Crane Carrier Co. (2004), the Texas Supreme Court adopted the approach of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability (1998) to component-part manufacturers’ liability.
