Pennsylvania courts prohibit the introduction of negligence concepts in the trial of a strict-liability products case. This prohibition prevents any consideration of “reasonableness” from entering the evidence, the arguments of counsel and the court’s charge in such a case. Adherence to this rule has contributed to the state of confusion that now prevails in Pennsylvania products liability law, and the rule should, therefore, be abandoned.
One justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has already called for the rejection of this antiquated precept. In Bugosh v. I.U. North America , Justice Thomas Saylor decried the rule’s role in the non-evolution of Pennsylvania products law:
