Unique Equipment Co. v. TRW Vehicle Safety Systems, Inc.

OPINION

FIDEL, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 In this appeal from the trial court’s dismissal of Unique Equipment Co., Inc.’s third-party complaint against TRW Vehicle Safety Systems, Inc., we resolve two questions of first impression. When an employer has provided design specifications for the manufacture of equipment to be used exclusively by its employees, and an employee covered by workers’ compensation brings a products liability suit against the manufacturer for damages attributed to a design defect in the equipment,(1) Do the exclusive remedy provisions of Arizona’s Workers’ Compensation Act bar…