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Edward PURTY, Appellant, v. McDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION, Appellee.
    No. 86-1041.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    June 9, 1987.
    Barranco, Kellough & Kircher and Luis E. Delgado, Miami, for appellant.
    Kimbrell & Hamann and Douglas J. Chumbley, Miami, for appellee.
    Before HUBBART, NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed on authority of Shaw v. General Motors Corp., 503 So.2d 362 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987). We certify the same questions:

(1) Whether the legislative amendment of section 95.031(2), Florida Statutes (1983), abolishing the statute of repose in product liability actions, should be construed to operate retrospectively as to a cause of action which accrued before the effective date of the amendment.
(2) If not, whether 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), applies so as to bar a cause of action that accrued after the Battilla decision but before the Pullum decision.

We need not reach the remaining issues.