Plaintiff Failed to Establish that Take-Home Asbestos Exposure Danger was Foreseeable, Wash. Court Says

SEATTLE –– A Washington federal court has determined that while the state’s high court would most likely recognize that an employer has a duty to prevent “take-home” asbestos exposure, the plaintiff in the instant case had not established that such a danger was foreseeable to her father and ex-husband’s former employer.

In the June 26 decision, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington awarded summary judgment to defendant Lockheed Shipbuilding Co. and dismissed the case with prejudice, finding that, in the 1950s, the company could not have foreseen the dangers of take-home asbestos exposure.

Plaintiff Loretta Hoyt …