A Florida appellate court has ruled that bulk suppliers of asbestos are required to give the public adequate safety warnings -- even if they don't sell asbestos directly to the public. The defendant argued that because it only handled raw asbestos, it did not produce a product that could be deemed defective under state product liability law, but the panel found that the company's asbestos reached an ultimate user "without any essential change affecting its deleterious properties."
July 13, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Rejecting a Union Carbide defense for the second time, a 4th District Court of Appeal panel ruled that bulk suppliers of asbestos are required to give the public adequate safety warnings — even if they don’t sell asbestos directly to the public.
Late last month, a 4th DCA panel unanimously overturned a Palm Beach Circuit judge who ruled that the standard jury instructions for product liability suits did not apply in an asbestos case against Houston-based Union Carbide.
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