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N.Y. high court blocks claim of secondhand asbestos exposure.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: N.Y. high court blocks claim of secondhand asbestos exposure.(New York)

Article Excerpt
New York's highest court has ruled that an employer owes no duty of care to a woman who said she contracted mesothelioma, a form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure, after 30 years of laundering her husband's work clothes. In a unanimous decision, the court of appeals reversed an intermediate court ruling and said courts must weigh "the precedential, consequential, future effects of their rulings, and limit the legal consequences of wrongs to a controllable degree." (In re New York City Asbestos Litig., Slip Op. 07863, 2005 WL 2777559 (N.Y. Oct. 27, 2005).)

John Holdampf went to work for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1960. He married in 1971 and retired in...

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