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	States with similar construction-repose statutes — Oregon (ORS 12.135), Idaho (I.C. § 5-241), and Montana (MCA § 27-2-208) — may look to ''Polinder'' as persuasive authority.<ref name="ors_12_135" /><ref name="ic_5_241" /><ref name="mca_27_2_208" /> Illinois has already addressed the issue through its 2015 statutory exemption.<ref name="il_13_214" /> ''Polinder'''s analytical structure — ''Pfeifer'''s focus on activity, ''Condit'''s structural-system test, and ''Morse'''s products-inside-improvements rule — provides a transportable framework for other jurisdictions facing the same issue.		States with similar construction-repose statutes — Oregon (ORS 12.135), Idaho (I.C. § 5-241), and Montana (MCA § 27-2-208) — may look to ''Polinder'' as persuasive authority.<ref name="ors_12_135" /><ref name="ic_5_241" /><ref name="mca_27_2_208" /> Illinois has already addressed the issue through its 2015 statutory exemption.<ref name="il_13_214" /> ''Polinder'''s analytical structure — ''Pfeifer'''s focus on activity, ''Condit'''s structural-system test, and ''Morse'''s products-inside-improvements rule — provides a transportable framework for other jurisdictions facing the same issue.

			''Polinder'' also lands within a broader 2026 wave of plaintiff-favorable household-asbestos rulings. Three days before ''Polinder'', the Supreme Court of Maryland issued ''Robin B. Quinn v. General Electric Co.'' (Misc. No. 2, Sep. Term 2025; April 27, 2026), unanimously holding that a household member alleging take-home asbestos exposure does not need to prove an additional element of "duty" in a strict liability design defect claim.<ref name="quinn_md_slip">[https://www.mdcourts.gov/data/opinions/coa/2026/2a25m.pdf Robin B. Quinn v. General Electric Co. — Misc. No. 2, Sep. Term 2025 (Md. Sup. Ct. Apr. 27, 2026)], slip opinion PDF.</ref> ''Quinn'' and ''Polinder'' reach plaintiff-favorable results through different doctrinal mechanisms — ''Quinn'' clears the duty barrier in strict-liability design-defect doctrine; ''Polinder'' carves seller and supplier claims out of a construction statute of repose — but together they signal an emerging appellate trend in 2026 toward removing categorical bars to household take-home recovery. The doctrinal foundation underlying both rulings traces to ''Borel v. Fibreboard'', the Fifth Circuit decision that — reported in several appellate-history syntheses — <ref name="lineage:f69fdb9d0c7743c3aafdb18d72cad634:082a89930270f160">493 F.2d 1076 (5th Cir. 1973) — Borel v. Fibreboard established asbestos strict liability for failure to warn</ref> first imported Restatement § 402A strict products liability into asbestos litigation. The take-home pathway itself is well-supported epidemiologically: [LOW-CONFIDENCE — verify before publishing]<ref name="lineage:f69fdb9d0c7743c3aafdb18d72cad634:eb11641f06c736bc">among domestically exposed household members of workers in high-exposure occupations</ref> in the 2013 meta-analysis of 12 cohort and case-control studies (Goswami et al., PMC3863863), providing the scientific scaffolding on which ''Polinder'''s seller-and-supplier theory and ''Quinn'''s design-defect theory both rest.

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Sprint 3a Pilot Page 4 (revision-mode) — Persuasive Impact section expanded with Quinn v. GE (Md. 2026-04-27) cross-reference establishing 2026 plaintiff-favorable household-asbestos trend across MD strict-liability design-defect and WA seller/supplier doctrines. 2 lineage refs applied: 1 medium hedged (Borel v. Fibreboard, 'reported in several appellate-history syntheses'), 1 LOW flagged (take-home epidemiology 5.02 RR Goswami 2013). Convergent doctrinal framing.

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