A pro-defendant tort-reform provision can help plaintiffs in product-liability cases defeat removal to federal court.
In 2003, House Bill 4 dramatically restricted the liability of “innocent retailers” — retailers who commit no independent, culpable act — in products liability suits. It did so by establishing a new general rule that nonmanufacturing sellers are not liable, except in certain limited circumstances.
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