Product liability lawyers in the medical device and pharmaceutical sphere know all too well which causes of action will likely be brought against their defendant-manufacturer clients—claims for failure to warn, manufacturing defect, design defect, breach of warranty, fraud—the list goes on. But thanks to a recent appellate decision out of California, that list might just get a little shorter. With Trejo v. Johnson & Johnson, a California Court of Appeal put what could possibly be the final nail in the coffin for design defect-based claims.

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