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LEFEVER v. K.P. HOVNANIAN ENTER.

734 A.2d 290 (1999)

160 N.J. 307

Justin LEFEVER, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. K.P. HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES, INC., Lull Engineering Co., Inc. and Giles & Ransome, Inc., individually and t/a Ransome Lift, Defendants, and Lull Industries, Inc., Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided July 29, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven I. Greene, West Caldwell, for defendant-appellant (Mr. Greene, attorney; Mr. Greene and Ira S. Broadman, a member of the Arizona bar, Phoenix, AZ, on the briefs).

Dennis S. Brotman, Trenton, for plaintiff-respondent (Brotman & Graziano, attorneys).

The opinion of the Court was delivered by O'HERN, J.

This appeal concerns the meaning of the product-line exception in Ramirez v. Amsted Industries Inc., 86 N.J. 332, 431 A.2d 811 (1981), when a successor corporation acquires the predecessor's product line through a bankruptcy sale.

The general rule of corporate-successor liability is that when...

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