Vigiolto v. Johns-Manville Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that market share liability is not appropriate in an action based on an asbestos-related injury
• holding that market share liability is not appropriate in an action based on an asbestos-related injury
• finding that although Pennsylvania Supreme Court would adopt market share liability theory, it would not do so in asbestos cases given the inherent differences between asbestos and DES
• rejecting alternative liability in an asbestos case finding that the theory required that all possible tortfeasors be joined and that it be alleged that one and only one of the actors caused the harm.
• plaintiff fails to allege that named defendants represent substantially all manufacturers of asbestos between 1943-1945

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).