Margaret RUBLEE, individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Vernon D. Rublee, Petitioner,
v.
CARRIER CORPORATION; Air & Liquid Systems Corporation, as successor by merger to Buffalo Pumps, Inc.; CBS Corporation, a Delaware corporation, f/k/a Viacom, Inc., successor by merger to CBS Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation, f/k/a Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Elliott Company; General Electric Company; IMO Industries, Inc., individually and as successor in interest to De Laval Turbine, Inc.; Ingersoll Rand Company; Lone Star Industries, Inc., individually and as successor in interest to Pioneer Sand & Gravel Company; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Saberhagen Holdings, Inc.; Union Carbide Corporation; and Warren Pumps, LLC, individually and as successor in interest to Quimby Pump Company, Defendants,
Pfizer, Inc., Respondent.
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Howard Terry Hall , Zackary Adam Paal , Foley & Mansfield, 999 3rd Avenue, Suite 3760, Seattle, WA 98104-4009, Marissa Alkhazov , Betts Patterson & Mines, P.S., 701 Pike Street, Suite 1400, Seattle, WA 98101-3927, Jenny Anne Durkan , City of Seattle, 600 4th Avenue, 7th Floor, P.O. Box 94749, Seattle, WA 98124-4749, Sheila Birnbaum , Hayden Coleman , Quinn Emanuel Urquhart, 51 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY 10010, for Respondents.
Jeffrey Lowell Needle , Attorney at Law, 705 2nd Ave. Ste. 1050, Seattle, WA 98104-1759, Robert S. Peck , Center for Constitutional Litigation PC, 50 Riverside Blvd. Suite 12A, New York, NY 10069, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of American Association for Justice.
Brian D. Weinstein , Weinstein Couture PLLC, 601 Union Street, Suite 2420, Seattle, WA 98101, Ted W. Pelletier , Michael T. Stewart , Kazan McClain Satterley & Greenwood, 55 Harrison Street, Suite 400, Oakland, CA 94607, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization.
Daniel Edward Huntington , Richter-Wimberley PS, 422 W. Riverside Avenue, Suite 1300, Spokane, WA 99201-0305, Valerie Davis McOmie , Attorney at Law, 4549 NW Aspen Street, Camas, WA 98607-8302, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington State Association for Justice Foundation.
Philip Albert Talmadge , Talmadge/Fitzpatrick/Tribe, 2775 Harbor Ave. SW, Third Floor, Suite C, Seattle, WA 98126-2138, for Amicus Curiae on behalf of Washington State Labor Council.
STEPHENS, J.
¶ 1 This case presents a question of first impression: whether Washington should adopt the so-called "apparent manufacturer" doctrine for common law product liability claims predating the 1981 product liability and tort reform act (WPLA), ch. 7.72 RCW. As set forth in the Restatement (Second) of Torts § 400 (Am. Law...
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