Court: Lack Of Workers’ Comp Claims Dooms Asbestosis Sufferers’ Malpractice Case

(January 24, 2017, 12:27 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — Four asbestosis sufferers who claim that their attorneys mishandled their case cannot show that they were disabled at the time they left work and therefore lack evidence that the alleged conduct cost them workers’ compensation claims, a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Jan. 12 (Larry Southern, et al. v. Richard H. Bishoff, et al., No. 15-2008, 4th Cir.; 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 593)....

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