Matter of Nyc Asbestos Litig

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “foreseeability bears on the scope of a duty, not whether a duty exists in the first place.”
• stating that finding duty in take-home asbestos cases would create \limitless liability\ for employers, extending duty to a babysitter or laundry worker who washes the employee's clothes
• holding employer/landowner owed no duty to protect or warn employees’ spouses of take-home asbestos exposure
• finding no duty based on policy considerations, including the potential for limitless liability
• finding no duty based on policy considerations, including the potential for limitless liability
• declining to recognize a duty owed by an employer to prevent asbestos exposure that occurred outside an employer's premises because foreseeability \does not define duty\ and there was no relationship between the employer and the employee's wife

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