HIGH v. WESTINGHOUSE ELEC. CORP.

No. 88-202.

559 So.2d 227 (1989)

Willie J. HIGH and Florida Power & Light Company, Appellants, v. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing April 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sinclair, Louis, Siegel, Heath, Nussbaum & Zavertnik and Frank Nussbaum and Paul A. Louis, Miami, for appellant High.

Coll, Davidson, Carter, Smith, Salter & Barkett and Norman A. Coll, Miami, for appellant Florida Power & Light Co.

Kimbrell & Hamann and Paul L. Nettleton and R. Benjamine Reid, Miami, for appellee.

Before NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ., and VANN, Harold R., Associate Judge.


As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc April 24, 1990.

NESBITT, Judge.

Willie J. High, a seventeen-year employee of Peppers' Steel and Alloys, Inc., alleged that he had been injured, on the job, by exposure to hazardous PCB's (polychlorinated biphenyls) in the transformer fluid contained within "junk transformers" which he handled, dismantled and helped process as part of his job. High sued Westinghouse, the transformer manufacturer, under...

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