Court: Asbestosis Settlement Doesn’t Foreclose On Workers’ Comp Case

Mealey's (May 21, 2019, 8:55 AM EDT) -- WILMINGTON, Del. — A release in a previous asbestosis action cannot foreclose on a workers’ compensation case involving the separate occupational disease of mesothelioma, a Delaware superior court judge said April 29 in reversing an industrial board ruling (Alicia Weddle, et al. v. BP Amoco Chemical Co., No. N18A-06-004 ALR, Del. Super., New Castle Co., 2019 Del. Super. LEXIS 215)....

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