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Personal Injury & Torts

Apr. 8, 2000

Two Bites

The statute of limitations in asbestos cases will be examined by the California Supreme Court.

By David E. Stanley and Wanda I.L. Parker
        Not every product on the market gets its own section in the Code of Civil Procedure - but asbestos does. Because claims for asbestos-related illness are so numerous, and because the progressive nature of those illnesses makes it so hard to say when an "injury" occurred, Code of Civil Procedure Section 340.2 establishes a special statute o...

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