Connecticut Court Breathes Life Back Into Asbestos Tort Against Employer

Mealey's (October 23, 2023, 2:30 PM EDT) -- HARTFORD, Conn. — A divided Connecticut appeals court revived an asbestos tort action against an employer on Oct. 20, finding evidence that the company knew of the dangers of asbestos at its facility and never disclosed them while touting the need to follow federal regulations to others as its own testing repeatedly, if only infrequently, demonstrated that its failures to follow those regulations placed the case within the intentional tort exception to workers’ compensation exclusivity....