Riggs v. Georgia-Pacific LLC

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a wrongful death action for asbestos-related death is a separate, nonderivative claim and it is not barred by prior personal injury actions for the same asbestos-related injuries
• “[I]n a wrongful death action following the decedent’s successful personal injury action, it would be inappropriate to extract the same damages 15 from the defendants twice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).