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PHILLIPS EX REL. WILLIAMS v. CRICKET LIGHTERS

773 A.2d 802 (2001)

Gwendolyn PHILLIPS, Administratrix of the ESTATE OF Robyn Jorjean WILLIAMS, Deceased, Gwendolyn Phillips, Administratrix of the Estate of Jerome I. Campbell, Deceased, Gwendolyn Phillips, Administratrix of the Estate of Alphonso Crawford, Deceased, Neil Curtis Williams, A Minor By His Guardian and Next Friend, Gwendolyn Phillips, Appellants, v. CRICKET LIGHTERS, Swedish Match, S.A., Pinkerton Tobacco Company, Pinkerton Group, Inc., Pinkerton Group, Inc., t/a d/b/a Cricket USA, Cricket S.A., Poppell, B.V., Wilkinson Sword/ Cricket Inc., Wilkinson Sword, Inc., NDC Corporation And National Development Corporation t/a Shenango Park Associates, DNC Asset Management Inc., Regional Sales Inc., Universal Match Company a/k/a Universal Match Corporation, Swedish Match A.B., Cricket B.V. Inter-Match S.A. Feudor, S.A. Schick Netherland, B.V. Warnerlambert Holland, B.V., Appellees, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Amicus, Product Liability Advisory Council Inc., Amicus Bic, Inc., A Pennsylvania Corporation, Amicus.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed April 10, 2001.

Reargument Denied June 22, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Sewinsky, Sharon, for appellant.

Carl A. Eck and Louis Long, Pittsburgh, for Cricket Lighters, appellee.

Before HUDOCK, MUSMANNO and HESTER, JJ.

HESTER, J.

¶ 1 This personal injury action was instituted after a tragic fire killed single mother Robyn Williams and two of her three children, Jerome and Alphonso. The fire was started by a minor child playing with a disposable butane lighter that did not have child-resistant features. Appellant is Gwendolyn Phillips, who instituted this action in her capacity as administratrix of the estates of the decedents and also in her capacity as guardian of Neil, Robyn...

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