Howard F. Messer, Jerome W. Kiger, Kiger, Messer & Alpern, Pittsburgh, for appellant.

Clifford A. Rieders, Williamsport, for amicus curiae, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Ass'n.

Robert S. Garrett, Egler, Garrett & Egler, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Paul S. Diamond, Alan W. Lesso, Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, Philadelphia, Co-Counsel, for Remington Arms Company, Inc.

Before NIX, C.J., and FLAHERTY, ZAPPALA, CAPPY and MONTEMURO, JJ.

ORDER

PER CURIAM:

Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently granted.

CASTILLE, J., did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.

CAPPY, J., dissents.

MONTEMURO, J., is sitting by designation.