Emmart v. Piper Aircraft Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO APPLY INDIANA LAW

SPELLMAN, District Judge.

THIS CAUSE comes before the Court on Defendants’, PIPER AIRCRAFT CORPORATION and TELEDYNE CONTINENTAL MOTORS, Motion to Apply Indiana Law in these consolidated actions involving a plane crash in Indiana, in which three Indiana residents, who at the time of the crash were either employees or officers of a distributor of Defendant Piper Aircraft Corporation (“Piper”), were killed. Under Florida conflicts of law principles, which this Court must apply, Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Elec. Mfg. Co., 313 U.S. 487, 61…