Case Based on Iowa Man's Exposure Aboard Ship Once Docked in S.F. Bay Can Remain in California, Court Says

SAN FRANCISCO - A California asbestos case filed by the family of an Iowa man whose only tie to California was that the ship upon which he was allegedly exposed to asbestos was once docked in San Francisco may stay in California Superior Court, an appeals court has ruled. Oster v. Borg-Warner Corporation, et al., No. A097569 (Calif. Ct. App., First Dist.)

The First District California Superior Court on April 30 held that the case may remain in California because the defendant that sought to have the case moved to Iowa failed to show that the 30 additional named defendants …