Tate v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

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

• applying Illinois and New Jersey law and adopting time-on-risk method to allocate defense costs incurred in asbestos products liability litigation
• dissent’s suggestion that asbestosis be deemed to occur ten years from date of first exposure
• “Injury, in the sense that there is tissue damage, occurs shortly after the initial inhalation of asbestos fibers.”
• “Injury, in the sense that there is tissue damage, occurs shortly after the initial inhalation of asbestos fibers”
• “The advocates of the exposure theory characterize asbestosis as a series of continuing injuries to the body which accumulate to cause death or disability”
• “The insurer’s liability is not ‘joint and several’, it is individual and proportionate”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).