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ESTATE OF BECKER EX REL. WHITE v. AVCO

No. 92972-6.

387 P.3d 1066 (2017)

ESTATE OF Virgil Victor BECKER, Jr., by its Personal Representative, Jennifer L. White, Petitioner, v. AVCO CORPORATION; Precision Airmotive LLC; Volare Carburetos LLC; Marvel-Schebler Carburetos LLC; Tempest Plus Marketing Group LLC; Aero Accessories, Inc.; Synergy Systems, Inc.; Cashmere Molding, Inc.; Crest Airpark, Inc.; Premier Aircraft Engines, Inc; Auburn Flight Service, Inc; and Estate Brenda L. Houston, by its Personal Representative Paul Thomas Crews, Defendants, and Forward Technology Industries, Inc., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Filed January 26, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Francis Hedrick , James T. Anderson, III , Aviation Law Group, PS, 1420 5th Ave., Ste. 3000, Seattle, WA, 98101-2393, for Petitioner.

Francis Stanley Floyd , John Armen Safarli , Amber L. Pearce , Floyd, Pflueger & Ringer, P.S., 200 W. Thomas St. Ste. 500, Seattle, WA, 98119-4296, for Respondent.

Eric B. Wolff , Jeffery Shane Clackley , Perkins Coie LLP, 1201 3rd Ave., Ste. 4900, Seattle, WA, 98101-3099, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Boeing Company.

Brian F. Ladenburg , Bergman Draper Ladenburg, PLLC, 821 2nd Ave., Ste. 2100, Seattle, WA, 98104-1516, Julie Braman Kane , Jeffrey R. White , American Association for Justice, 777 6th Street N.W., Suite 200, Washington, DC, 20001-3723, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of American Association for Justice.

Bryan Patrick Harnetiaux , Attorney at Law, 517 E. 17th Ave., Spokane, WA, 99203-2210, Daniel Edward Huntington , Richter-Wimberley PS, 422 W. Riverside Ave., Ste. 1300, Spokane, WA, 99201-0305, Valerie Davis Mcomie , Attorney at Law, 4549 N.W. Aspen St., Camas, WA, 98607-8302, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington State Association for Justice Foundation.

Melissa O'Loughlin White , Cozen O'Connor, 999 3rd Ave., Ste. 1900, Seattle, WA, 98104-4028, Catherine Wright Smith , Howard Mark Goodfriend , Smith Goodfriend PS, 1619 8th Ave. N., Seattle, WA, 98109-3007, for Other Parties.

¶ 1 Virgil Victor Becker, a retired doctor, was killed in a plane crash. His estate (Estate) claimed that a faulty carburetor caused the crash. Forward Technology Industries Inc. (FTI) built a component for that carburetor. The Estate brought numerous claims against FTI, including a state product liability claim implicating a faulty...

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