CAROLLO v. FORTY-EIGHT INSULATION


252 Pa.Super. 422 (1977)

381 A.2d 990

Andrew V. CAROLLO and James Roy DeRocco v. FORTY-EIGHT INSULATION, INC., a corporation, Vimasco Corp., a corporation, Gustin-Bacon, Division of Certain Teed Products Corp., Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., a corp., Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp., Johns-Manville Products Corporation and Benjamin Foster, a Division of Amchem Products, Inc. v. WHEELING PITTSBURGH STEEL CORPORATION, United Steelworkers of America, Local 1229, and the United Steelworkers of America International and George V. Hamilton, Inc. v. UNARCO INDUSTRIES, INC., the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, a/k/a Philip Carey Corporation, and Briggs Manufacturing Company, a/k/a Panacon Corporation and the Celotex Corporation.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 28, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick R. Riley, Greensburg, for appellant at No. 667.

Randall J. McConnell, Jr., Pittsburgh, with him James R. Miller, Pittsburgh, for appellant at No. 682.

John David Rhodes, Pittsburgh, with him James R. Hartline, Pittsburgh, for appellant at No. 684.

Charles J. Duffy, Jr., Alfred E. Lawson, Joseph B. Bagley, R. Kenneth Willman, Chester S. Fossee, and James F. Manley, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before WATKINS, President Judge, and JACOBS, HOFFMAN, CERCONE, PRICE, VAN der VOORT, and SPAETH, JJ.


SPAETH, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order entering summary judgment.

Plaintiffs worked many years for Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, installing insulation in Wheeling-Pittsburgh's Monessen plant. They allege in their complaint that during the course of their employment they contracted asbestosis and pneumoconiosis as a result of prolonged inhalation of asbestos fibers. Defendants are manufacturers of insulation products of which asbestos is allegedly...

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