Massachusetts Top Court Confronts Statute Of Repose’s Application In Asbestos Cases

Mealey's (December 7, 2018, 2:49 PM EST) -- BOSTON — Whether the Legislature was the “model of clarity” when it passed a law designed to protect contractors from liability for improvements to real property or whether it is manifestly unfair to set a six-year limit that provides an absolute bar to the most meritorious cases sits before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court after Dec. 4 oral arguments (June Stearns, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., et al., No. SJC-12544, Mass. Sup. Jud.)....