U.S. Supreme Court rejects Third Circuit’s broad “foreseeability” test but holds that an equipment manufacturer has a duty to warn of injuries caused by another’s product, under federal maritime...
U.S. Chamber and coalition of business groups file amicus brief urging the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to require trial courts to apportion liability on a percentage, not per capita, basis as...
Fractured Virginia Supreme Court holds that shipyard owed a duty of care to prevent employees from carrying asbestos fibers home on their clothes and exposing others over strong dissent from three...
U.S. Chamber urges Supreme Court to clarify that manufacturers of “bare-metal” equipment cannot be liable for injuries caused by asbestos products added to their equipment by others under maritime...
Supreme Court grants cert. petition addressing whether manufacturers of “bare-metal” equipment can be liable for injuries caused by products added to their equipment by third parties under...
Arizona Supreme Court rejects plaintiffs’ “secondary, or “take-home” liability theory and holds employers do not owe a “duty” to those with whom a traditionally recognized common law relationship...
Maryland Court of Appeals determines that statute of repose for improvements to real property does not bar asbestos claims where last exposure occurred before 1970
