PRIDGEN v. PARKER HANNIFIN CORP.


905 A.2d 422 (2006)

Karen PRIDGEN, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lendon N. Pridgen, Deceased; and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony W. Cipparone, Deceased and Denise Diggen, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Daniel Diggen, Deceased, and Debra Johnson, Individually, and on Behalf of Tyler Johnson, as Parent and Natural Guardian of Tyler Johnson, a Minor v. PARKER HANNIFIN CORPORATION and Basco Flying Service, Inc. and Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Division and Textron, Inc. and AVCO Corporation. Appeal of Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Division, Textron, Inc. and AVCO Corporation.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided August 22, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Marie Thorton Field, James E. Robinson, Patrick J. O'Connor, Elizabeth Chambers Bailey, Philadelphia, for Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Div./Textron, Inc./AVCO Corp., appellants.

Arthur A. Wolk, Philadelphia, Bradley J. Stoll, Fort Washington, for Karen Pridgen, Debra and Kevin Johnson, Denise Diggen, appellees.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN and BAER, JJ.


OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

Appeal was allowed to determine whether interlocutory appeals as of right lie from a common pleas court's orders denying summary judgment in consolidated product liability cases, on motions of defendant airplane engine manufactures grounded on an eighteen-year federal statute of repose.

Under the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994,1 claims for death, injury, and property damage...

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