BANKS v. ICI AMERICAS, INC.

No. S95G1887.

469 S.E.2d 171 (1996)

266 Ga. 607

BANKS et al. v. ICI AMERICAS, INC.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

April 29, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Shields, R. Hutton Brown III, Doffermyre, Shields Canfield & Knowles, Atlanta, Richard A. Childs, Columbus, for Banks, et al.

M. Stephen Hyles, Hagler, Hyles & Adams, Columbus, Phillip S. McKinney,

Brett A. Rogers, Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta, for ICI Americas, Inc.


HUNSTEIN, Justice.

This is the second appearance of this case in this Court. In Banks v. ICI Americas, 264 Ga. 732, 450 S.E.2d 671 (1994) (hereinafter "Banks I"), we adopted a risk-utility analysis as the appropriate test for reaching the legal conclusion that a product's design specifications were partly or totally defective. Id. at (1), 450 S.E.2d 671. We further concluded that plaintiffs1

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