In Speller v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 100 NY2d 38, 41, 790 NE2d 252, 760 NYS2d 79 [2003], the plaintiffs alleged that a defective refrigerator caused a house fire. The manufacturer and retailer moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, offering evidence of an alternative cause of the fire, i.e., a stovetop grease fire. The Court stated that, "in order to withstand summary judgment, plaintiffs were required to come forward with competent evidence excluding the stove as the origin of the fire" (id. at 42). Based on plaintiffs' three expert opinions, which concluded that the fire originated in the refrigerator and not from the stove, we held "that plaintiffs raised a triable question of fact by offering competent evidence which, if credited by the jury, was sufficient to rebut defendants' alternative cause evidence" (id. at 43). Put another way, the Court stated, "based on plaintiffs' proof, a reasonable jury could conclude that plaintiffs excluded all other causes of the fire" (id.).