Jerkins v. Lincoln Electric Co.

I concur to overrule the application for rehearing. However, I write specially to acknowledge the concerns expressed on rehearing by the defendant welding-rod manufacturers and amici curiae Business Council of Alabama and Alabama Defense Lawyers Association that application of the six-year limitations period set out in McKenzie v. Killian, 887 So.2d 861 (Ala.2004), to Charles E. Jerkins’s wantonness claim will have the unintended effect of reviving wantonness claims that would otherwise be subject to the two-year limitations bar that predated McKenzie. Specifically, the welding-rod…