URIARTE v. SCOTT SALES CO.

No. B244257.

226 Cal.App.4th 1396 (2014)

172 Cal. Rptr. 3d 886

FRANCISCO URIARTE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SCOTT SALES CO. et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division One.

June 13, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Metzger Law Group, Raphael Metzger ; Simon Greenstone Panatier Bartlett and Brian P. Barrow for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Alexander Law Group and Richard Alexander for the Council for Education and Research on Toxics, Dr. Jerrold Abraham, Dr. Richard W. Clapp, Dr. Ronald Crystal, Dr. David A. Eastmond, Dr. Arthur L. Frank, Dr. Robert J. Harrison, Dr. Ronald Melnick, Dr. Lee Newman, Dr. Stephen M. Rappaport, Dr. David Joseph Ross and Dr. Janet Weiss as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Snider, Diehl & Rasmussen, Stephen C. Snider , Trenton M. Diehl and Kristina O. Lambert for Defendant and Respondent J.R. Simplot Company.

Schaffer, Lax, McNaughton & Chen, Jill A. Franklin and Yaron F. Dunkel for Defendant and Respondent Scott Sales Co.


OPINION

ROTHSCHILD, Acting P. J.

J.R. Simplot Company (Simplot) and Scott Sales Co. (Scott) supplied silica sand to Francisco Uriarte's employer for use as sandblasting media. Uriarte filed suit against Simplot and Scott, alleging that the airborne toxins produced by sandblasting with their silica sand caused him to develop interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and other illnesses. Simplot...

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