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NANCE v. JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORP.

No. 81-382.

466 So.2d 1113 (1985)

Jean NANCE, As Personal Representative of the Estate of E.S. Nance, Appellant, v. JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORP., a Successor by Merger with Johns-Manville Products Corporation; Unarco Industries, Inc.; Gaf Corporation; Standard Asbestos Manufacturing and Insulation Company; Owens Corning Fiberglass Corporation; Celotex Corporation, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Motions for Rehearing, Clarification and Certification Denied April 16, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greene & Cooper and Marc Cooper and Sharon Wolfe, Philip Freidin, Miami, for appellant.

Blackwell, Walker, Gray, Powers, Flick & Hoehl and James E. Tribble, Miami, Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans and Clark Jordan-Holmes, Tampa, Carey, Dwyer, Cole, Selwood & Bernard and Michael C. Spring, Miami, Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler and John B. Liebman, Orlando, Harold C. Knecht, Jr., Coral Gables and David Crowley, Wicker, Smith, Blomqvist, Davant, Tutan, O'Hara & McCoy and Janet R. Riley, Lee, Schulte, Murphy & Coe, Spencer & Taylor, Underwood, Gillis, Karcher, Reinert & Valle, Miami, and Carlos Casuso, South Miami, Haddad & Josephs, Miami, and Robert L. Vessel, High, Stack, Lazenby, Bender, Palahach & Lacasa, Coral Gables, and R. Scott Boundy, Stephens, Lynn, Chernay & Klein, Thomson, Zeder, Bohrer, Werth, Adorno & Razook, Kimbrell, Hamann, Jennings, Womack, Carlson & Kniskern and Susan J. Cole; Richard R. McCormack, Rumberger, Wechsler & Kirk and M. Stephen Smith, III, Miami, and Raymond T. Elligett, Jr. and Charles Schropp, Tampa; Lyle & Skipper, St. Petersburg, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL, HENDRY, HUBBART, NESBITT, BASKIN, DANIEL S. PEARSON, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.

OPINION ON REHEARING EN BANC1

NESBITT, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final summary judgment which determined that Nance's wrongful death action against the defendants was barred by the statute of limitations.

The plaintiff's decedent was exposed to asbestos while working in a shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia between the years 1940 and 1945. Inhalation of the asbestos fibers...

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