Portions Of Friction, Shipborne Asbestos Exposure Case Survive Dismissal

(June 11, 2024, 9:17 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A man adequately alleges that asbestos attributable to a company through automobile friction products and by work alongside its employees caused his mesothelioma, but claims focused on worksite control and fraud fail, while a second company failed to establish that punitive damages and loss of consortium were not historically available under maritime law, a federal judge in California said in partially granting one motion to dismiss and denying the second....