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THE DEFECTIVE-DESIGN CAUSE OF ACTION AGAINST THE SELLERS OF A TRUCK WHICH DID NOT HAVE A BACK-UP ALARM SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED; THE PURCHASER OF THE TRUCK TESTIFIED HE WAS NOT AWARE THE OPTION WAS AVAILABLE (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the defective-design cause of action against the defendant sellers of a truck should not have been dismissed. The truck was purchased by plaintiff’s employer who testified he did not know a back-up alarm was an available option. Plaintiff was run over as the truck backed up:

Where, as here, a plaintiff buyer claims that a product without an optional safety feature is defectively designed because the feature was not included as a standard feature, the product is not defective if “(1) the buyer is thoroughly knowledgeable regarding the product and its use and is actually aware that the safety feature is available; (2) there exist normal circumstances of use in which the product is not unreasonably dangerous without the optional equipment; and (3) the buyer is in a position, given the range of uses of the product, to balance the benefits and the risks of not having the safety device in the specifically contemplated circumstances of the buyer’s use of the product” … . Here, defendants submitted the deposition testimony of plaintiff’s employer, who testified that, at the time he bought the truck that was involved in the accident, he “didn’t know” that a backup alarm was available as an option, thereby raising an issue of fact whether he was actually aware of its availability … . Mariani v Guardian Fences of WNY, Inc., 2021 NY Slip Op 02906, Fourth Dept 5-7-21

 

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