( October 16, 2024, 11:17 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Res judicata cannot be applied to a woman’s lawsuit claiming that she experienced significant asbestos-related exposure from her husband’s work shirts because the woman’s cause of action against her husband’s employer did not exist when a judgment was entered for her husband and against his employer in a separate lawsuit, a Louisiana appeals court said in granting a writ application and vacating a lower court’s ruling....