Illinois Court: Illegal Asbestos Debris Removal Outside Workers’ Comp System

(April 18, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A company’s directive that a worker remove debris it knew contained asbestos but the worker did not was illegal and, therefore, outside the workers’ compensation system, and the record suggests that it knew with 100% certainty that the work would injure the man and constitutes an intentional tort, an Illinois appeals court said April 14 in reviving the case....

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