LANDIS v. A.W. CHESTERTON CO.

No. 648 WAL 2010.

20 A.3d 1183 (2011)

Spurgeon E. LANDIS and Mary A. Landis, his Wife, Petitioners v. A.W. CHESTERTON COMPANY; Union Carbide Corporation; CBS Corporation, formerly known as Viacom, Inc., as Successor-By-Merger to CBS Corporation, Successor-in-Interest to Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Ingersoll-Rand Company; Grinnell Corporation; Goulds Pumps, Inc.; Greene Tweed & Company; Hedman Mines, Ltd.; Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC; Crane Company; Certainteed Corporation; Safety First Industries, Inc., in its Own Right and as Successor-in-Interest to Safety First Supply, Inc.; Alloy Rods Corporation, Individually and as Successor-in-Interest to Alloy Rods Company; Chemetron Corporation, Individually and as Successor-in-Interest to Alloy Rods Corporation and Alloy Rod Company; the Esab Group, Inc., Individually and as Successor-in-Interest to Alloy Rods Corporation, Alloy Rods Company and Chemetron Corporation; Saint Gobain Abrasives, Inc. (f/k/a Norton Company-Safety Products Division-USA North Company); and Hajoca Corporation, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

May 17, 2011.


ORDER

PER CURIAM.

AND NOW, this 17th day of May 2011, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioners, are:

(1) Whether application of 77 P.S. § 411(2), the "disease manifestation" provision of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act ("Act"), in concert with 77 P.S. § 481, the "exclusive remedy" provision of the Act, results in an unconstitutional denial of the ...

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