Kentucky High Court Accepts Household Duty, Asbestos Expert Appeals

( May 22, 2024, 9:18 AM EDT) -- LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court agreed to discretionary review in a pair of cases after a lower court let stand a ruling holding that defendants owed a duty to a household member to prevent asbestos exposure by the late 1960s, that a judge improperly excluded deposition testimony by an expert regarding asbestos in talc and that the state’s workers’ compensation exclusivity provision does not immunize an employer where there is evidence only of a summer’s worth of exposure to dust but not asbestos....