Bice v. Micon Products International, Inc.

NABERS, Chief Justice.

For the second time, this Court is asked to consider whether Daniel R. Boyd, Debra C. Butler, and Bryan M. Kelley, coal miners who claim they were injured by exposure to a certain chemical while employed as coal miners and whose claims arose in Tuscaloosa County (“the Tuscaloosa plaintiffs”), may pursue their claims against 11 defendants, including Flexible Products Company and Micon Products International, Inc., involved in the manufacture, use, and distribution of the chemical in the Bessemer Division of the Jeffer*113son Circuit Court. The defendants have petitioned for…