Civil Litigation
Oct. 18, 2019
New law unfairly limits discovery in asbestos cases
SB 645 is unreasonable regardless of the number of asbestos defendants sued in a lawsuit or present at the plaintiff’s deposition.
Hannah Reed
Associate
Gordon & Rees Scully Mansukhani
Email: hreed@grsm.com
Hannah Reed is an attorney in the firm's Environmental & Toxic Tort practice group . She is a regular contributor to GRSM's Environmental & Toxic Tort Defense Insight blog.
In California, an asbestos lawsuit may have 20 or more defendants, a plaintiff with a decades-long career at dozens of jobsites, and hundreds of opportunities for asbestos exposure. The plaintiff in asbestos litigation is the best -- and often, the only -- person to identify all products he or she used, where he or she used them, the duration of use, and the manufacturer of these products. Defense attorneys often go into the mesothelioma plaintiff's deposition prior t...
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