CATHERWOOD v. AM. STERILIZER


139 Misc.2d 901 (1988)

Elaine Catherwood et al., Plaintiffs, v. American Sterilizer Company et al., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs. Johnson and Johnson et al., Third-Party Defendants.

Supreme Court, Erie County.

August 8, 1988


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moot & Sprague (Michael A. Brady of counsel), for Dow Chemical Company, defendant. Magavern & Magavern (George R. Rich of counsel), for Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., defendant. Robert M. Kiebala for American Sterilizer Company, defendant and third-party plaintiff. O'Shea, Reynolds, Napier, Quinn & Cummings (Erin M. Peradotto of counsel), for Balchem Corporation, defendant and third-party plaintiff. Phillips, Lytle, Hitchcock, Blaine & Huber (Paul F. Jones of counsel), for Linde and another, defendants and third-party plaintiffs. Thomas V. Hagerty for Pennsylvania Engineering Co., defendant and third-party plaintiff. Renaldo, Myers & Regan, P. C. (James I. Miller of counsel), for Rodgers Welding Supply, Inc., defendant and third-party plaintiff. Raichle, Banning, Weiss & Stephens (Derrick C. Banning of counsel), for Northern Petro Chemical Company and another, defendants and third-party plaintiffs. Hodgson, Russ, Andrews, Woods & Goodyear (H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr., of counsel), for SunOlin Chemical Company, defendant and third-party plaintiff. Albrecht, Maguire, Heffern & Gregg, P. C. (Richard T. Sullivan of counsel), for third-party defendants. James P. Burgio for plaintiffs.


JOSEPH D. MINTZ, J.

Defendant Dow Chemical Company (hereinafter Dow) is a manufacturer of, and defendant Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (hereinafter Air Products) is a distributor of, Ethylene Oxide (hereinafter EtO). Plaintiffs allege injury from exposure to EtO while they were employed by third-party defendants in a plant, no longer in service, in Buffalo, New York.

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