Amici Group Files Brief in N.Y. Asbestos Dosage Quantification Dispute; Says Experts ‘Must Account for Dose, Not Ignore It’

NEW YORK –– An amici brief has been filed in an ongoing asbestos dispute involving the issue of the quantification requirement for toxic tort cases –– as outlined in Parker –– with the group suggesting that the “correct scientific methodology” for linking latent diseases to distant exposures “must account for dose, not ignore it.”

In the March 29 brief filed in the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, the amici write that the causation theory used by the plaintiffs in the underlying case “disdains any need event to estimate the actual dose of a plaintiff in a toxic …