1. May 2007 - A quick stroke of the pen, the governor. Sonny Perdue approved a new law that severely restricts the asbestos litigation, the manifestation of the disease.
Sponsored by Sen. John Wiles (R-Marietta) and supported by the Georgia Trial Lawyer's aims BUBBLES court primarily for cases in which the applicant clearly demonstrate conclusively disease asbestos. Wiles said the statement, "This will allow people who are really sick to go toline before. "
Before the adoption of the law that an application can be made if a person has been exposed, but do not have a confirmed diagnosis of asbestos-state. The number of critical cases creates legal uncertainty always said that asbestos litigation has been the creation of a flood of processes of garbage.
A recent study has shown that he had been in the United States alone more than 730,000 asbestos claims were filed and 2002 and at least 8400 the defendants received more than70 billion U.S. dollars. Georgia has a number of these processes, as is home to the headquarters of the company Georgia-Pacific, which has long been a target of asbestos lawsuits.
Asbestos was widely used for insulation and fire protection in the 1980s, when their health risks were revealed. It is a carcinogen for inhalation and exposure to lead, often fatal disease mesothelioma. Asbestos-related diseases usually take 20 + years to develop, and patients are often diagnosed whenare advanced.
This is not the first time that the state has to try to limit asbestos litigation. An old law was rejected by the Supreme Court of Georgia in 2006 and have the new law would probably be questioned.
The new law was the same type in Ohio, Fla., Texas, Kansas and Texas, South Carolina in force. Demonstrate a person who needs a loan in Georgia who have a physical disability caused by asbestos. Other asbestoscan not complain until he became ill, under the law.
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