Utah Says Good-Bye to the Passive Retailer Doctrine in Products Liability
For years, practitioners, insurers, retailers and judges have operated under principle that if the manufacturer of a defective product is known, those retailers who sold the product have no liability. This practice dates back, at least, to Sanns v. Butterfield Ford, 2004 UT App 203, 94 P.3d 301 (2004). That all changed on December 1, 2017 when the Utah Supreme Court overruled Sanns and implemented a new application of Utah's strict product liability law and the Liability Re
