TYWKIWDBI: Baseball bat manufacturer "failed to warn" the public...
........A Montana jury has found the manufacturer of Louisville Slugger bats to be liable for damages because of an alleged failure to put adequate warnings on the product to notify the public regarding its dangers.
Hillerich and Bradsby has been ordered to pay $850,000 to the family of 18-year-old Brandon Patch. The teenager was killed during a 2003 baseball game after being struck in the head by a batted ball off an aluminum bat while pitching during an American Legion game in Helena, MT.
The Patch family argued aluminum bats are dangerous because they cause the ball to travel faster than those hit off wooden bats. They said Brandon did not have enough time to react after the ball was hit...
The company has issued a response based on logic and sanity:
Our company did nothing wrong. We made a bat in accordance with the rules. That bat was approved for play by baseball's organizing and governing organizations. In fact, the jury found in our favor, that the bat was not defective...........
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Typical disgusting and cold-hearted corporate response. The corporate class in this country SUCKS and has no class!
aluminum bats are dangerous...
...as opposed to wooden bats which just shatter and send jagged spears of wood flying everywhere.
in this case (and it's rare) i agree with the corp. they did NOTHING wrong.
exactly stray. that's exactly why they went with aluminum
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