Evidence Established Employer’s Asbestos Liability, Plaintiffs Tell Texas Court

Mealey's (March 11, 2019, 2:07 PM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — An employer cannot rely on its failure to test for the presence of asbestos as proof that it could not have known that an employee would experience exposures sufficient to cause mesothelioma, plaintiffs told the Texas Supreme Court on March 7.  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce warned the court on the same day that allowing the suit threatened to undermine the state’s workers’ compensation system (The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Vicki Lynn Rogers, et al., No. 18-0056, Texas Sup.)....