Kentucky Court Denies Rehearing In 1960 Household Duty Asbestos Case

(August 18, 2023, 1:51 PM EDT) -- LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Court of Appeals on Aug. 17 denied a petition for rehearing in a docket entry, leaving stand a ruling holding that defendants owed a duty to a household member to prevent asbestos exposure by the late 1960s, that a judge improperly excluded deposition testimony by an expert regarding asbestos in talc and that the state’s workers’ compensation exclusivity provision does not immunize an employer where there is evidence only of a summer’s worth of exposure to dust but not asbestos....