Supreme Court Told Maritime Law Doesn’t Permit Liability For Third-Party Parts

(July 17, 2018, 12:39 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The simplicity favored by maritime law doesn’t permit imposing liability on manufacturers for third-party parts, which requires courts to conduct an abstract analysis of what was foreseeable, a group of asbestos defendants told the U.S. Supreme Court on July 9 (Air and Liquid Systems Corp, et al. v. Roberta G. DeVries, et al., No. 17-1104, U.S. Sup.)....