Purcell v. Asbestos Corporation, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that causation requirement in torts case would be met by showing that defendants \substantially contributed\ to plaintiff's disease
• rejecting Lohrmann as setting too high a burden for plaintiffs in a mesothelioma case
• rejecting Lohrmann as setting too high a burden for plaintiffs in a mesothelioma case
• declining to adopt the Lohrmann test but noting that “even the jurisdictions that follow the frequency, regularity, and proximity test apply it less rigidly when dealing with mesothelioma, because it can be caused by very minor exposures”
• declining to adopt the Lohrmann test but noting that “even the jurisdictions that follow the frequency, regularity, and proximity test apply it less rigidly when dealing with mesothelioma, because it can be caused by very minor exposures”
• declining to adopt the Lohrmann test but noting that A even the jurisdictions that follow the frequency, regularity, and proximity test apply it less rigidly when dealing with mesothelioma, because it can be caused by very minor exposures @

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