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COWARD v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORP.

729 A.2d 614 (1999)

Walter J. COWARD, Appellee, v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION, et al. Appeal of Owens-Corning (Formerly Known as Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation), Appellant. Albert L. Vecchione and Loretta Vecchione, h/w, Appellees, v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Corporation, et al. Appeal of Owens-Corning (Formerly Known as Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation), Appellant. William J. Watts, Appellee, v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, et al. Appeal of Owens-Corning (Formerly Known as Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation), Appellant. Joseph Poplaski and Loretta Poplaski, h/w, Appellees, v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, et al. Appeal of Owens-Corning (Formerly Known as Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation), Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed April 14, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann C. Lebowitz, Philadelphia, for Owens-Corning, appellant.

Edward M. Nass, Philadelphia, for appellees.

Before JOHNSON, SCHILLER, and BROSKY, JJ.

JOHNSON, J.:

¶ 1 In this product liability case, we are asked to determine whether a plaintiff should be afforded the use of a rebuttable presumption that he or she would have followed an adequate warning had one been given where warnings or instructions are required to make a product non-defective and a warning has not been given. We conclude that Pennsylvania jurisprudence poses no impediment to the adoption of such a "heeding presumption." Accordingly, we...

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