Schweiner v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, but for merger, plaintiff could have sued predecessor that manufactured defective equipment as third party, but not analyzing basis for such a suit
• under the dual-persona doctrine, the defendant’s status as a successor in liability was a sufficiently separate persona to allow the plaintiff to bring a third-party action
• under the dual-persona doctrine, the defendant's status as a successor in liability was a sufficiently separate persona to allow the plaintiff to bring a third-party action
• defective machine manufactured by company before it merged with plaintiff's employer; statute made employer responsible for liabilities of merged company
• defective machine manufactured by company before it merged with plaintiffs employer; statute made employer responsible for liabilities of merged company

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).