FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 02/01/ :52 PM INDEX NO /2016 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 50 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 02/01/2017

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1 FILED NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 02/01/ PM INDEX NO /2016 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 50 RECEIVED NYSCEF 02/01/2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK In Re NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIGATION This Document Relates To WADE M. LEWIS, Index No /16 Plaintiffs, - against - VERIFIED ANSWER TO AMENDED VERIFIED AIR & LIQUID SYSTEMS CORPORATION, et al. COMPLAINT Defendants. Defendant ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL, INC. (hereinafter "ARMSTRONG ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL ) INTERNATIONAL") by its attorneys, HARRIS BEACH PLLC, for its answer to plaintiffs' plaintiffs Amended Verified Complaint states as follows 1. Denies any knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the allegations contained in paragraphs numbered "1", 1, "2", 2, "5", 5, "6", 6, "7" 7 "8", 8, "9", 9, "10", 10, "11", 11, "12", 12, "13", 13, "14", 14, "15", 15, "16", 16, "17", 17, "18", 18, "19", 19, "20", 20, "21", 21, "22", 22, "23" 23 and "24" 24 of the Amended Verified Complaint. 2. Denies each and every allegation contained in paragraph of the Amended Verified Complaint numbered "3" 3 but admits that ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL "was was and still is... doing business in the State of New York." York. 3. Denies each and every allegation contained in paragraph of the Amended Verified Complaint numbered "4" 4 but admits that ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL is a foreign 1 of 5

2 FILED NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 02/01/ PM INDEX NO /2016 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 50 RECEIVED NYSCEF 02/01/2017 corporation and that it "was was and still is... doing business and/or transacting business in the State of New York," York, and begs leave to refer all questions of law to this honorable Court. 3. ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL hereby further answers the Amended Verified Complaint in this action by reference to its Answer to NYAL Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. Standard Asbestos Complaint for Personal Injury No. 7, served on plaintiffs' plaintiffs counsel on June 1, 2007, and raises each of the affirmative defenses and cross-claims contained therein. Dated New York, New York February 1, 2017 Yours, etc. As A -vall. HARRIS BEACH PLLC ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL, INC. 100 Wall Street New York, New York of 5

3 FILED NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 02/01/ PM INDEX NO /2016 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 50 RECEIVED NYSCEF 02/01/2017 ATTORNEY'S ATTORNEY S VERIFICATION The undersigned affirms the following statement to be true under penalties of perjury pursuant to Rule 1206 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules. That he is an attorney at law and associated with the firm of HARRIS BEACH PLLC, attorneys for the defendant ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL, INC. That he has read the foregoing Verified Answer in the case of Lewis v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation, et al. (Index No /16) and knows the contents thereof and that the same is true to the knowledge of your affirmant except as to the matters therein alleged upon information and belief and that as to those matters he believes them to be true. That the reason why this affirmation is being made by your affirmant and not the defendant is that the defendant is a foreign corporation and does not maintain an office with an officer having knowledge of the facts in the county where your affirmant's affirmant s firm maintains its offices. That the sources of your affirmant's affirmant s information and the grounds of his beliefs as to all the matters therein alleged upon information and belief are reports from and communication had with said corporation. Dated New York, New York February 1, of 5

4 FILED NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 02/01/ PM INDEX NO /2016 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 50 RECEIVED NYSCEF 02/01/2017 AFFIRMATION OF SERVICE I hereby affirm that defendant Armstrong International, Inc. s Inc.'s Verified Answer in the case of Lewis v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation et al. (Index No /16), filed through the NYSCEF system, will be sent electronically to the registered participants as identified on the Confirmation Notice and paper copies will be sent to those indicated as non-registered participants on this 1St 1 st day of February, 2017.,tea a 64 HARRIS BEACH PLLC ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL, INC. 100 Wall Street, 23rd floor New York, New York of 5

5 FILED NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 02/01/ PM INDEX NO /2016 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 50 RECEIVED NYSCEF 02/01/2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF NEW YORK In Re NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIGATION This Document Relates To WADE M. LEWIS, Index No /16 Plaintiffs, - against - AIR & LIQUID SYSTEMS CORPORATION, et al. Defendants. VERIFIED ANSWER TO AMENDED VERIFIED COMPLAINT HARRIS BEACH, PLLC 100 Wall Street-23rd rd Floor New York, NY Armstrong International, Inc. 5 of 5