Expert Says Hundreds of Years Needed to Cause Asbestos Disease
The A.W. Chesterton Company says that they have experts who will testify that the plaintiff in a case would have needed to have been exposed to asbestos for hundreds of years in order to have contracted an asbestos-related disease. Lula Delafosse has filed the lawsuit on behalf of her dead husband Louis Delafosse. Lula Delafosse named Chesterton and 24 other companies as defendants in her suit.
Expert Says Hundreds of Years Needed to Cause Asbestos Disease
Attorneys for Chesterton say that "the risk [of contracting mesothelioma] is proportional to the dose: the greater the accumulation, the greater the risk. The dose is produced by various exposure accumulating over time." Chesterton manufactures gaskets and packaging materials.
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