John Crane Reiterates Maritime Asbestos Widow Can’t Seek Her Own Damages

(December 6, 2023, 2:37 PM EST) -- BOSTON — A Navy widow’s survival action does not permit recovery of her own damages, and the court already concluded that maritime law does not permit a wrongful death action seeking nonpecuniary damages for loss of society and consortium, an asbestos defendant tells a federal judge in Massachusetts in a motion to dismiss....