LAW OFFICES OF STEVEN D. SMITH, P.C. v. BORG-WARNER SEC.

No. S-8250.

993 P.2d 436 (1999)

LAW OFFICES OF STEVEN D. SMITH, P.C., Appellant, v. BORG-WARNER SECURITY CORP., formerly Borg-Warner Corp., and its Division Marvelschebler/Tillotson, Facet Aerospace Products Co., Purolator Products Co., formerly Facet Enterprises, Inc., all Delaware Corporations, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

December 23, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven D. Smith, Law Offices of Steven D. Smith, P.C., and Michael W. Flanigan, Walther & Flanigan, Anchorage, for Appellant.

Bruce A. Bookman and Helena L. Hall, Perkins Coie, LLP, Anchorage, for Appellees.

Before MATTHEWS, Chief Justice, COMPTON, EASTAUGH, FABE, and BRYNER, Justices.


OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is the fourth appeal to arise from a 1986 airplane crash apparently caused by a defective carburetor made by Borg-Warner Security Corporation (Borg-Warner). The first two appeals concerned the superior court's 1989 dismissal, on statute-of-limitations grounds, of a wrongful-death suit against Borg-Warner.1 Attorney Steven Smith, representing the estate of...

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