Law360, New York (November 23, 2009, 3:38 PM ET) -- As the pool of viable defendants in asbestos-related lawsuits becomes shallower and shallower, particularly for occupational industrial exposures, plaintiffs and their counsel are responding with new legal theories targeting a different group of product manufacturers.
Those manufacturers are NOT being sued for any asbestos-containing products they allegedly manufactured, however. They are being sued for the products manufactured by “traditional” asbestos-containing product manufacturers, many of whom were bankrupted by the litigation years ago.
The basis for these unique claims is the relatively novel theory that the manufacturer...
Duty To Warn For Other Manufacturers' Products?
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