Law Offices of Steven D. Smith, P.C. v. Borg-Warner Security Corp.

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is the fourth appeal to arise from a 1986 airplane crash apparently caused by a defective carburetor made by Borg-Warner Security Corporation (Borg-Warner). The first two appeals concerned the superior court’s 1989 dismissal, on statute-of-limitations grounds, of a wrongful-death suit against Borg-Warner. 1 Attorney Steven Smith, representing the estate of passenger Merrett Palmer, had filed the suit. Smith learned after the suit’s dismissal that Borg-Warner had fraudulently concealed evidence of the allegedly defective carburetor. In 1994, after…