PRIDGEN v. PARKER HANNIFIN CORP.


916 A.2d 619 (2007)

Karen PRIDGEN, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lendon N. Pridgen, Deceased; and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Anthony W. Cipparone, Deceased and Denise Diggen, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Daniel Diggen, Deceased, and Debra Johnson, Individually, and on Behalf of Tyler Johnson, As Parent and Natural Guardian of Tyler Johnson, a Minor, v. PARKER HANNIFIN CORPORATION and Basco Flying Service, Inc. and Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Division and Textron, Inc. and Avco Corporation. Appeal of Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Division, Textron, Inc. and Avco Corporation.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 21, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne Marie Thornton Field, Esq., James E. Robinson, Esq., Patrick J. O'Connor, Esq., Elizabeth Chambers Bailey, Esq., Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia, for Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Div./Textron, Inc./Avco Corporation.

Arthur A. Wolk, Esq., Wolk Law Firm, Philadelphia, for Karen Pridgen, Debra and Kevin Johnson, Denise Diggen.

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


OPINION ON REARGUMENT

Justice SAYLOR.

The background for this matter in which we have permitted reargument, submitted on the briefs, is set forth in Pridgen v. Parker Hannifin Corp., 588 Pa. 405, 905 A.2d 422 (2006).

There, this Court addressed whether interlocutory appeals as of right lie from a common pleas court's orders denying summary judgment in consolidated product liability

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