A Maryland law setting strict time limits for filing suits arising from property improvements doesn’t bar asbestos injury claims based on exposure that predates the 1970 law, Maryland’s highest court ruled.
The ruling reinstates a wrongful death suit on behalf of steamfitter James F. Piper and allows it to proceed to trial against CBS Corp., the successor to former manufacturer Westinghouse Electric Corp.
The defendants contended that the 1970 law, known as a statute of repose, bars Piper’s estate from linking his mesothelioma to pre-1970 exposure to asbestos insulation in the turbine generators where he worked.
The Maryland Court of ...
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