Warner v. American Fluoride Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Krausman, J.
The central issue presented on appeal is whether the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, more commonly known as FIFRA, preempts the plaintiff’s State tort claims based upon the failure to adequately warn him of the *3dangers of the pesticides to which he was exposed as an employee of the New York City Department of Correction. For the reasons which follow, we now join the majority of courts across the Nation in concluding that the language of FIFRA, its legislative history, and the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in Cipollone v…
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