Summers v. CERTAINTEED CORP.

OPINION

Justice BAER.1

Appellants, Frederick Summers and Richard Nybeck, appeal the Superior Court’s per curiam order, which affirmed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to Appellees, Union Carbide Corporation, Certainteed Corporation, and Allied Signal, Inc.2 After careful consideration, we reverse the Superior Court’s order affirming the trial court, and remand this action to that court for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

I

This appeal comes to us via strict liability, asbestos litigation commenced by Frederick Summers (and his wife, Lynn) and Richard Nybeck (collectively,…