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GREGG v. V-J AUTO PARTS, INC.

No. 38 EAP 2005.

943 A.2d 216 (2007)

John Andrew GREGG, Executor of the Estate of John I. Gregg, Jr., Deceased, Appellee, v. V-J AUTO PARTS, INC., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 28, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Perna Corbin, Esq., Jocelyne Clare Peregoy, Esq., German, Gallagher & Murtagh, P.C., Philadelphia, for V-J Auto Parts Company.

James Michael Beck, Esq., Dechert, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc.

Michael Lee Martinez, Esq., Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., for Coalition of Litigation Justice, Inc.

Richard P. Myers, Esq., Paul, Reich & Myers, P.C., Philadelphia, for John Andrew Gregg.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, BALDWIN and FITZGERALD, JJ.

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.1

The question presented concerns the appropriate application of the "frequency, regularity, proximity" criteria in asbestos product liability litigation.

John I. Gregg, Jr. ("Mr. Gregg") died in March 1998. A year later, his son, Appellee John Andrew Gregg, as executor for his father's estate, filed a product liability complaint naming more than seventy defendants and alleging civil liability...

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