Sylvio Cournoyer v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Klein the applicability of the Statute turns not on whether the improvement was prefabricated, but whether the manufacturer relinquished control after designing, manufacturing and supplying the item
• holding that under Klein v. Catalano, 386 Mass. 701 (1982), the applicability of §2B turns not on whether the improvement was prefabricated or mass produced, but whether the manufacturer relinquished control after designing, manufacturing and supplying the item
• stating that the statute of repose may not apply to designer of building if injury arose from designer’s negligent act “committed in its role as supplier”

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