Employer Warns Against Categorizing Asbestos Injuries As Substantial Certainty

Mealey's (November 28, 2023, 1:33 PM EST) -- HARTFORD, Conn. — Expanding the substantial-certainty doctrine in workers’ compensation cases to long-term asbestos exposure cases threatens to flood courts with tort actions currently handled by the state’s dedicated asbestos workers’ compensation docket, an employer warned the Connecticut Supreme Court in a petition for certification....