EAGLE-PICHER INDUSTRIES, INC. v. BALBOS

No. 1739, September Term, 1989.

84 Md. App. 10 (1990)

578 A.2d 228

EAGLE-PICHER INDUSTRIES, INC., ET AL. v. PAUL BALBOS, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF LESLIE BALBOS, ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

August 29, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis C. Whelley (Mann & Whelley, on the brief), Towson, for appellant, Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.

Warren N. Weaver (Louis G. Close, Jr., Lisa A. Kershner and Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellants, ACandS, Inc., Owen-Illinois, Inc., Pittsburgh Corning Corp. and Porter Hayden Co.

(H. Emslie Parks, Anthony J. Breschi, John F. Eckhart and Parks, Hansen & Ditch, on the brief), Towson, for appellant, Celotex Corp.

Harry Goldman, Jr. (David M. Layton, Steven G. Warm and Goldman and Skeen, P.A., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellees.

Argued before ALPERT, ROBERT M. BELL and CATHELL, JJ.


ALPERT, Judge.

In this, the last decade of the 20th Century, our judicial system faces an apocalypse in the guise of asbestos cases. As did the "Apocalyptic beast,"1 asbestos rose up "as from the depths of the sea," after having lain dormant for decades, to plague our industries initially and our judicial system consequentially, spreading cancer and asbestosis to thousands of workers along the way.

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