After nearly eight years since the state Supreme Court significantly changed the way products liability cases are litigated in Pennsylvania, the justices will now have a chance to clarify the longstanding open question of whether industry standards should be admissible at trial.

On Wednesday, the justices agreed to take up Sullivan v. Werner Company to address whether a trial court ruling barring jurors in a products liability case from hearing industry and governmental safety standards went against the high court’s 2014 ruling in Tincher v. Omega Flex, in which the high court altered the state’s products liability scheme by breaking down the firm division between negligence and strict liability concepts.