Pridgen v. Parker Hannifin Corp.

OPINION ON REARGUMENT

Justice SAYLOR.

The background for this matter in which we have permitted reargument, submitted on the briefs, is set forth in Pridgen v. Parker Hannifin Corp., 588 Pa. 405, 905 A.2d 422 (2006).

There, this Court addressed 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 manufacturers grounded on an eighteen-year federal statute of repose established in the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994. 1 Once it was determined that the…