SCOTUS’ Warning on Manufacturers’ Duty to Warn

Manufacturers may be troubled by a new opinion from the United States Supreme Court that may portend broad recognition of a duty to warn of hazards in other companies’ products. In one of his first cases on the Supreme Court, Justice Kavanaugh held for six Justices of the Supreme Court that manufacturers of pumps and turbines that needed asbestos to work can be liable for failing to warn about the dangers of a product they did not manufacture – asbestos.