Pridgen v. Parker Hannifin Corp.

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

Appeal was allowed to determine whether interlocutory appeals as of right lie from a common pleas court’s orders denying summary judgment in consolidated product liability cases, on motions of defendant airplane engine manufactures grounded on an eighteen-year federal statute of repose.

Under the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994, 1 claims for death, injury, and property damage involving certain types of aircraft asserted against manufacturers generally are barred if the accident occurred more than eighteen years after the delivery of the aircraft to the first…