Holding that plaintiff's claims against medical device manufacturer, as pleaded, for design defect, manufacturing defect, failure to warn, breach of express warranty, and fraud are preempted by MDA
179 Cal.App.4th 949 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009) Cited 80 times
Holding "legislative purpose of former section 439, the predecessor of section 426.30 . . . was to provide for the settlement, in a single action, of all conflicting claims between the parties arising out of the same transaction" and to "avoid a multiplicity of actions"
Stating that "No valid reason appears to require a plaintiff to elect whether to proceed on the theory of strict liability or on the theory of negligence."