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KULZER v. PITTSBURGH-CORNING CORP.

Nos. 1230, 1231, Dockets 90-9062, 90-9132.

942 F.2d 122 (1991)

Pauline KULZER, as Executrix of the Estate of Richard Kulzer, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PITTSBURGH-CORNING CORP.; Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; the Celotex Corporation; Raymark Industries, Inc.; Amchem Products, Inc.; GAF Corp.; Armstrong World Industries; United States Gypsum Co.; H.K. Porter Company, Inc.; Nicolet, Inc.; Carey Canada, Inc., Defendants, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, Manville Corporation Asbestos Disease Comp. Fund, Third-Party-Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 8, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin B. Velie, New York City (Maria T. Galeno, Janis G. White, Suzanne Spector, Christy & Viener, New York City, Damon & Morey, Buffalo, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellant-cross-appellee Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.

Michael Yoeli, New York City (David Henry Sculnick, John J. Laden, Gordon & Silber, of counsel), for third-party-defendant-appellee-cross-appellant Manville Corp. Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund.

Stephen G. Schwarz, Rochester, N.Y. (Matthew F. Belanger, Faraci, Guadagnino, Lange & Johns, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before MESKILL, PRATT and WALKER, Circuit Judges.

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

The dispositive question raised on appeal is whether this wrongful death action falls within an exception to section 4 of the New York Toxic Tort Reform Act of 1986, Ch. 682, § 4, reprinted in 1 McKinney's Session Laws of New York 1567 (1986) ("revival statute" or "statute"). Plaintiff Pauline Kulzer (plaintiff) brought this wrongful death action under the revival statute on behalf of her deceased husband Richard Kulzer (Kulzer...

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