Asbestos Widow: Trial Court Improperly Shifted Burden, Ignored Exposure Evidence

(August 13, 2019, 12:15 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — The initial burden on summary judgment lay with asbestos fiber suppliers, and the existence of hundreds of building permits did nothing to dispel allegations of exposure to asbestos in drywall compound in the 1990s, a widow tells a California appeals court in an Aug. 1 brief (Jovana Collantes, etc., et al. v. Elementis Chemicals Inc., et al., No. B295278, Calif. App., 2nd Dist.)....

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