ie., an unreasonable risk of injury and/or death from fire or smoke in the event of an incident causing a power outage. As a direct and proximate cause of the acts and omissions of the defendant manufacturers, Ryland and Summit in installing the defective smoke detector which failed to alert the Collins, Chapman, and Juster boys, who were asleep in the basement of the house on June 14, 1998, aver appellants, the fatalities and injuries resulted. Appellants incorrectly argue that the concept of superseding causation applies to product liability cases only when there is misuse because, when the unforeseeable misuse of a product causes the injury, the misuse is a superseding cause. See e.g. Lightolier, a Div. of Genlyte Thomas Group, LLC. v. Hoon, 387 Md. 539, 561-62, 876 A.2d 100 (<HOLDING>) while it is true that, if the sole proximate
holding that negligence must be the proximate cause of injury holding that the relationship between fire insurance regulation and rating fire loss fire prevention and fire investigation is rational and reasonable holding where the defendants conduct in setting a fire was a proximate cause of a fire fighters death the death occurred in course of and in furtherance of the arson holding that a physicians negligence need only be a proximate cause not the proximate cause of plaintiffs injury holding that failure to heed warnings rather than malfunctioning safety switch was proximate cause of the fire