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ACOSTA v. FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER CO.

No. 90-2024.

592 So.2d 1102 (1991)

Maria ACOSTA, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Luis Acosta, Sr., Deceased, Appellant, v. FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER CO., and Kelsey Hayes Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 11, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Klein & Tannen, P.A., Lewis Tannen and Norman S. Klein, Hollywood, for appellant.

Gary M. Farmer, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee Kelsey-Hayes Co.

Preddy, Kutner, Hardy, Rubinoff, Brown & Thompson and G. William Bissett, Miami and Nancy Hoffman, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.

Before FERGUSON, JORGENSON, and GERSTEN, JJ.

JORGENSON, Judge.

Maria Acosta appeals from adverse summary judgments in a wrongful death action. For the following reasons, we reverse.

In August, 1987, Luis Acosta was killed when a multipiece rim and wheel assembly exploded, causing part of the assembly to separate and strike him. In December, 1987, Maria Acosta, as personal representative of her husband's estate, filed a wrongful death action against Firestone and Kelsey Hayes, the manufacturers of the...

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