WASHINGTON–Successor liability for damages has been rejected bya Texas appellate court in cases where a company acquires abusiness where an asbestos victim worked.
The appellate court panel, based in Houston, upheld in a 2-1split decision the constitutionality of retroactive statelegislation that barred victims of asbestos-related disease fromwinning damages–either compensatory or punitive–from the successorcompanies.
According to Mark Behrens, a lawyer with Shook, Hardy &Bacon L.L.P. in Washington, D.C., the decision in Robinson vs.Crown Cork provides “relief from unfair asbestos-related successorliability.”
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