HARRY LANE AND ROSA LANE, HIS WIFE, APPELLANTS,
v.
KOEHRING COMPANY, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 1987-02-10
No. 86-282
Before NESBITT, DANIEL S. PEARSON and JORGENSON, JJ.
503 So. 2d 364 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1987) Caution
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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed on the authority of Shaw v. General Motors Corp., 503 So. 2d 362 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987). As in Shaw, we certify to the Supreme Court of Florida the following questions as being of great public importance:

I. Should the legislative amendment of Section 95.031(2), Florida Statutes (1983), abolishing the statute of repose in product liability actions, be construed to operate retrospectively as to a cause of action which accrued before the effective date of the amendment?

II. If not, should the decision of Pullum v. Cincinnati, Inc., 476 So. 2d 657 (Fla.1985), appeal dismissed, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 1626, 90 L.Ed.2d 174 (1986), which overruled Battilla v. Allis Chalmers Mfg. Co., 392 So. 2d 874 (Fla.1980), apply so as to bar a cause of action that accrued after the Battilla decision but before the Pullum decision?

Affirmed.


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    …FERGUSON, Judge (specially concurring). Affirmance is required by Shaw; however, in my view, as was stated in a concurring opinion in Dominguez v. Bucyrus-Erie Co., 503 So. 2d 364 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987), our first duty in construing a statute is to reconcile it with constitutional mandates. See Biggs v. Smith, 134 Fla. 569, 184 So. 106 (1938). That duty requires us to give the statute retroactive application so as to open the cou…
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