KORNFEIND v. NEW WERNER HOLDING CO., INC.

No. 30 EAP 2021.

280 A.3d 918 (2022)

William KORNFEIND, Appellee v. NEW WERNER HOLDING CO., INC. & the Home Depot, Inc. Appeal of: New Werner Holding Co., Inc.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: August 16, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erin Kelly Rudert, Esq. , Ainsman Levine, LLC, Pittsburgh, PA, for Amicus Curiae The Pennsylvania Association for Justice.

Diane E. Vuocolo, Esq. , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Participants Old Ladder Company.

Jonathan Richard Bruno, Esq. , Joseph A. Del Sole, Esq. , Del Sole Cavanaugh Stroyd LLC, Pittsburgh, PA, Carol Ann VanderWoude, Esq. , Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, PC, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellant New Werner Holding Co., Inc.

Benjamin Daniel Hartwell, Esq. , Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellants Amici Curiae Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel and The Pennsylvania Defense Institute, Inc.

Patrick Daniel MacAvoy, Esq. , Philadelphia, PA, Kevin Roberts Marciano, Esq. , Media, PA, Marciano & MacAvoy, P.C., for Appellee William Kornfeind.

BAER, C.J., TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, JJ.


OPINION

We granted allowance of appeal to consider whether the Pennsylvania Uniform Statute of Limitations on Foreign Claims Act, 42 Pa.C.S. § 5521(b), requires our courts to apply—or "borrow"—a foreign jurisdiction's statute of repose to...

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