An individual diagnosed with two diseases related to workplace asbestos exposure can move forward with his personal injury case against his former employer because the statute of limitations had not run out with regard to the second disease, the Delaware Supreme Court has ruled.
The high court held that Delaware is a multi-disease jurisdiction where each separate diagnosis is a unique claim subject to individual limitations and reversed a Superior Court decision that the plaintiff’s claim was not timely.
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