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SMITH v. UNIVERSAL SCHEDULING CO.

No. 1980020.

736 So.2d 562 (1999)

Rebecca Ann SMITH, as personal representative of the estate of Dudley J. Smith, deceased v. UNIVERSAL SCHEDULING COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied May 21, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Tucker Burge of Burge & Wettermark, P.C., Birmingham, for appellant.

Jonathan B. Medlock and Benjamin R. Rice of Surrier, Rice, Wood & Hall, Huntsville, for appellee.

HOUSTON, Justice.

This appeal raises the issue whether a consulting company that is hired only to give a business advice about how to improve efficiency owes a duty to warn of, or to make safe, certain hazards caused by equipment that is reactivated based on the advice of the consulting company.

In 1991, Copeland Corporation hired a consulting firm, Universal Scheduling Company ("USC"), to help improve workplace efficiency. Specifically, Copeland's contract...

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