Outher COLE, et al.
v.
CELOTEX CORPORATION, et al.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 28, 1992.
Rehearing Denied June 30, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William B. Baggett, William B. Baggett, Jr., and Rebecca Sue Young, Baggett, McCall & Burgess, Lake Charles, for applicants.
William T. McCall, Robert E. Guillory, Guillory & McCall, Lake Charles, Dermot S. McGlinchey, Victoria K. McHenry,
James M. Garner, Martha M. Young, McGlinchey, Stafford, Cellini & Lang, New Orleans, Richard M. Shusterman, David E. Sandels, Jr., Patricia A. Henry, White and Williams, Philadelphia, Pa., James L. Pate, Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, Richard N. Dicharry, Stephen P. Hall, Phelps Dunbar, New Orleans, David L. Hoskins, Scofield, Gerard, Veron, Hoskins & Soileau, Lake Charles, Michael T. Cali, Gerald J. Talbot, Lemle & Kelleher, J. Michael Johnson, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins & Burr, New Orleans, Thomas M. Bergstedt, Scofield, Bergstedt, Gerard, Mount & Vernon, Kenneth R. Spears, Jones, Tete, Nolen, Hanchey, Swift & Spears, Lake Charles, Maria I. O'Byrne Stephenson, Jesse R. Adams, Jr., Adams & Johnson, New Orleans, Christopher P. Ieyoub, Plauche, Smith & Nieset, Lake Charles, Robert E. Kerrigan, Jr., A. Wendel Stout, III, Janet L. MacDonell, Marc J. Yellin, Gary B. Roth, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Lawrence G. Pugh, III, Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, New Orleans, and Vance Edward Ellefson, Ellefson, Pulver & Staines, Metairie, for respondents.
Gary Allen Lee, Faris, Ellis, Cutrone & Gilmore, New Orleans, for Underwriters at Lloyd's London Co., amicus curiae.
Brian Carl Bossier, Robert Edgar Caraway, III, and Robert E. Williams, IV, Metairie, for J. Melton Garrett, George Kelmell, Peter Territo, Steven Kennedy, Albert Bossier, Edward Blanchard, Ollie Gatlin Edwin Hartzmann, John Chantrey, Charles Calzada, and Paul Tregre, Jr., amici curiae.
Edward John Lilly, Dymond, Crull, Castaing & Lilly, New Orleans, for Uniroyal Inc., amicus curiae.
Rockne Locke Moseley, Lea, Plavnicky & Moseley, New Orleans, for McDermott Inc., amicus curiae.
Charles S. McCowan, Jr., Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, for Louisiana Chemical Ass'n, amicus curiae.
Carey J. Guglielmo and Daniel Joseph Balhoff, Mathews, Atkinson, Guglielmo, Marks & Day, Baton Rouge, for Dow Chemical Co., amicus curiae.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
HALL, Justice.
This case involves injuries to workers caused by long-term exposure to asbestos at their workplace, and presents several significant issues of law upon which a divergence of opinion exists among our state and federal courts.1 Plaintiffs, three workers, and defendant, the insurer of plaintiffs' employer's executive officers, both filed writ applications. We granted both writs2 to consider three...
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