The New Jersey Supreme Court broadened the state’s duty-to-warn doctrine last week by extending landowners’ obligations to workers’ spouses who handle clothes covered with asbestos dust. Just as a company owes a duty to workers for the foreseeable risk of asbestos exposure, it has a duty to spouses “based on the foreseeable risk of exposure from asbestos borne home on contaminated clothing,” the court held. The ruling runs counter to those by the highest courts in New York and Georgia.
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Posted on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006. Filed under: Employment, Law Misc
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