On Wednesday, when the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a woman's claim for damages against a company that insulated the pipes at her husband's workplace Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton wrote "Imposing such a potential financial burden on these non-manufacturing suppliers years after the fact for an obligation that was not foreseeable at the time would result in a great inequity."

The court ruled 5-2 that a 1977 state Supreme Court decision that extended product liability could not be legally applied to happenings before the court made the ruling.

Lundberg-Stratton wrote that as products containing asbestos have not been manufactured or sold for approximately 30 years, "the time for making these products safer has come and gone."