Lipari v. Niagara Machine & Tool Works

OPINION

WEBER, Chief Judge.

In this case the plaintiff was a workman injured in the course of employment. He brings suit against the manufacturer of a press and its component controls on which he was working at the time of injury, alleging that this machinery was defective. The attempt of these defendants to implead as *731third party defendant the employer of plaintiff for contribution or indemnity was denied by the Court on the basis of the 1974 amendment to the Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act, 77 P.S. 481(b) (called Sec. 303(b) of the Act), which makes the Act the exclusive remedy of an…