PATTY MORRIS ET AL.
v.
OSMOSE WOOD PRESERVING ET AL.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 14, 1995.
Reconsideration Denied December 29, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Arnold Levin (Fred S. Longer, Levin, Fishbein, Sedran & Berman, Philadelphia, PA); Gary E. Mason (Michael D. Hausfeld, Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, of Washington, DC; Charles A. Schneider of Washington DC; Harold Berger, Janice Siegel, Berger & Montague, P.C., Philadelphia, PA; Steven M. Pavsner Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, P.A., Greenbelt) all on brief; John H. Nethercut, Assistant Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, both on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.
Christopher Scott D'Angelo (Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA), H. Patrick Donohue (Armstrong, Donohue & Ceppos, of Rockville, MD, on brief), liaison counsel and for respondent Hoover Universal, Inc.
Read K. McCaffrey (Andrew J. Toland, Patton Boggs, L.L.P. of Baltimore, on brief), for respondent Osmose Wood Preserving, Inc.
Andrew T. Berry (Patrick J. Perrone, McCarter & English, both on brief), Newark, NJ, Phillip C. Jacobson (Anderson, Coe & King, of Baltimore, MD, on brief), for respondent Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc.
Jack E. McClard, Hunton & Williams, of Richmond, VA, Mark B. Bierbower, Hunton & Williams, of Washington, DC, Benjamin V. Madison, III, Hunton & Williams, of Norfolk, VA, Michael T. Wharton, Debra S. Block, Wharton, Levin, Ehrmantraut, Klein & Nash, P.A., of Annapolis, MD, Michael J. McManus, Warren Lutz, Jackson & Campbell, P.C., of Washington, DC, amicus curiae.
Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
MURPHY, Chief Judge.
Plaintiffs' products liability tort claims in this case seek recovery for purely economic loss associated with the alleged deterioration of plywood in the roofs of their townhouses. The principal issue is whether their claims come within the exception for conditions "presenting a clear danger of death or personal injury," which we adopted in Council of Co-Owners v. Whiting-Turner,308 Md. 18, 35 n. 5,
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