context: Coastal manufactured and supplied the GFRC panels that comprised the "skin" of the St. George. Suppliers of building components have been determined to be protected ac tors entitled to protection by the repose provision of SS 2B only where the role of supplier was incidental and the actor's primary function was to provide individual expertise and particularized services relating to design and construction.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 412 Mass. 636, 642
citation_a.parenthetical: defendant protected by SS 2B where its role of supplying bleachers was incidental to primary function of performing particularized construction services in assembling and installing bleachers
citation_a.sentence: See McDonough v. Marr Scaffolding Co., 412 Mass. 636, 642 (1992) (defendant protected by § 2B where its role of supplying bleachers was incidental to primary function of performing particularized construction services in assembling and installing bleachers).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.parenthetical: SS 2B protection extended to supplier of lift who provided individual expertise and particularized services, collaborated in design of lift, supervised installation, and specified and supervised building modifications
citation_b.sentence: See also Rosario v. M.D. Knowlton Co., 54 Mass. App. Ct. at 802 (§ 2B protection extended to supplier of lift who provided individual expertise and particularized services, collaborated in design of lift, supervised installation, and specified and supervised building modifications).