South Carolina Briefing Addresses Causation Standard, Cumulative Exposure

Mealey's (August 9, 2023, 1:19 PM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, S.C. — An expert’s testimony that cumulative exposure adds to the dose of asbestos that contributes to disease isn’t the same as the theory that every exposure leads to disease, a conclusion the expert specifically rejected, and the courts below didn’t adopt Pennsylvania law on causation, a man told the South Carolina Supreme Court in a respondent brief while also defending the trial court’s additur ruling....