Koker v. Armstrong Cork, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating the lost chance doctrine applies where the plaintiff “lost an opportunity and has no other redress”
• applying the law in effect prior to the WPLA because the plaintiff's claim arose prior to that act
• applying the law in effect prior to the WPLA because the plaintiff’s claim arose prior to that act
• stating the lost chance doctrine applies where the plaintiff \lost an opportunity and has no other redress\
• “injury producing event” was exposure to asbestos, so tort claim arose before 1981 tort reform act
• “There is a presumption that the same words used twice in the act have the same meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).