Friable Thoughts

Monday, February 12, 2007

Duty to Warn Expands for Equipment Makers

The plaintiffs' bar won two decisions in Washington state on whether equipment makers must warn about asbestos containing components used with their equipment or on their equipment even if they did not make the asbestos containing components.

BRAATEN v. UNION CARBIDE CORP.

SIMONETTA v. VIAD CORPORATION