Matter of Attorneys in Violation of Judiciary Law § 468-a. (Yoshii)

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• holding that respirator manufacturers were not entitled to summary judgment where victim died from “mesothelioma, a deadly type of cancer associated with asbestos exposure,” after using product
• clarifying that strict liability, not negligence, principles apply to product 4 liability claims against manufacturers under the WPLA
• holding duty to warn of exposure to asbestos when manufacturers were not in the chain of distribution of the asbestos-containing products
• holding duty to warn of exposure to asbestos when manufacturers were not in the chain of distribution of the asbestos-containing products
• “The WPLA is the exclusive remedy for product liability claims. It supplants all common law claims or actions based on harm caused by a product.”
• the WPLA “supplants all common law claims 3 || or actions based on harm caused by a product”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).