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Amato v. Bell & Gossett

SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT
Feb 1, 2016
130 A.3d 1283 (Pa. 2016)

Opinion

No. 448 EAL 2015

02-01-2016

Thomas AMATO and Jean Amato, his wife v. BELL & GOSSETT, Clark–Reliance Corp., Copes–Vulcan, Inc., Crane Co., Dezurik/Copes–Vulcan, Electrolux Home Products, Inc., Goodyear Canada, Inc., Greene, Tweed & Company, Industrial Holdings Corp. f/k/a Carborundum Company, Inc., J.A. Sexauer, Inc., John Crane, Inc., Lincoln Electric Co., Nibco, Inc., Parker–Hannifin Cop., Saint–Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Sepco Corp., SPX Corp., Velan Valve Corp., William Powell Company, Ingersoll Rand Company, Trane US, Inc., Individually and f/k/a American Standard, Inc., Successor to the Trane Co., American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., Kewanee Boiler, Co., and/or Kewanee Boiler Div. of American Standard, Union Carbide Corp. and Warren Pumps, LLC Petition of Crane Co.


ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 1st day of February, 2016, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, LIMITED TO the issue set forth below. Allocatur is DENIED as to all remaining issues. The issue, as stated by Petitioner, is:

Whether, under the Court's recent decision in Tincher v. Omega Flex, Inc. [––– Pa. ––––], 104 A.3d 328 (Pa.2014), a defendant in a strict-liability claim based on a failure-to-warn theory has the right to have a jury determine whether its product was “unreasonably dangerous[?]”

Justice EAKIN did not participate in the consideration or decision of this matter.


Summaries of

Amato v. Bell & Gossett

SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT
Feb 1, 2016
130 A.3d 1283 (Pa. 2016)
Case details for

Amato v. Bell & Gossett

Case Details

Full title:THOMAS AMATO AND JEAN AMATO, HIS WIFE v. BELL & GOSSETT, CLARK-RELIANCE…

Court:SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT

Date published: Feb 1, 2016

Citations

130 A.3d 1283 (Pa. 2016)

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