032954P.pdf   03/18/2005  Kimberly R. Crump  v.  Versa Products
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-2954
                          and No:  03-3098
   Eastern District of Missouri   
   Civil case - Products liability. Defendants' strict liability instruction, 
   while not a correct statement of Missouri law on its own, must be read in 
   conjunction with the other instructions in the case, and read together and 
   taken as a whole, the instructions fairly and adequately submitted the 
   issues of strict product liability and failure-to-warn; exclusion of 44 
   incidents of hinge failure was proper as the incidents either occurred after 
   the date of plaintiff's accident or occurred when the ladder was in a 
   different configuration; district court did not err in admitting testimony by 
   experts not included in defendant's witness list as defendant had provided 
   their resumes and reports prior to trial and had made each witness 
   available for deposition; further, plaintiffs' expert was clearly familiar 
   with the witnesses' reports and theories; district court did not abuse its 
   discretion in denying defendant's motion for discovery sanctions. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Melloy and Bright, Circuit Judges]