[SamAdams76]

That's crazy. The manufacturer of the eggcrate foam bears no responsibility at all. They just sell the product. What the purchaser does with it has nothing to do with them.

[Skip Ripley]

No offense, but did you get the license plate of the turnip truck you fell off of?

This is the American legal system, where do you get off appying logic to it?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That's crazy. The manufacturer of the eggcrate foam bears no responsibility at all.

I am not disagreeing with you in the least. I just have prior knowledge of trial lawyers.

[IYAS9YAS]

You haven't heard about the vacuum cleaner company that lost a suit because little Johnny (pun intended) whacked his wee-wee off by inserting it into the sucking hole on said company's product. Mangled wee-wee, company loses.

Reason? Fan that caused suction was able to be reached by fingers (as well as boys' wee-wees).

This was a liability issue that the company should have looked in to and therefore little mangled wee-wee boy's family wins big. Vacuum was not used for its intended purpose, company still lost because they "should have known" someone could lose a finger (or a wee-wee).

I'll see if I can track it down over the next few days and give you a link.

[Petronski]

The manufacturer of the eggcrate foam bears no responsibility at all. They just sell the product. What the purchaser does with it has nothing to do with them.

Under 'strict liability' law (applied in California for instance), anyone in the supply chain can be liable. I don't know if Rhode Island is a strict liability state or not, but such liability is not inconceivable.

And yes, strict liability is complete BS.

[Freedom4US]

That's crazy. The manufacturer of the eggcrate foam bears no responsibility at all. They just sell the product. What the purchaser does with it has nothing to do with them.

Yes, it is crazy. And the inmates are running the asylum in the U.S., there are many, many successful lawsuits against folks who "just sell the product"; it illustrates just how atrociously evil lawyers can be.