Court Finds Take-Home Asbestos Pipe Exposures Barred By Workers’ Comp

(September 18, 2015, 3:46 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — The state’s workers’ compensation exclusivity provision bars a tort action alleging exposures to asbestos from pipes a man brought home from work because it involves the same mesothelioma his occupational exposure triggered, a California appeals panel held Sept. 17 (Mary Melendrez, et al. v. Ameron International Corp., Nos. B256928, B259423, Calif. App., 2nd Dist., Div. 4; 2015 Cal. App. LEXIS 820)....

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