MATTER OF NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIGATION

Nos. 5200, 5201, 5202, 107211/08, 190078/08

87 A.D.3d 467 (2011)

928 N.Y.S.2d 513

2011 NY Slip Op 6296

In the Matter of NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIGATION. LAWRENCE BERNARD et al., Respondents, v. BROOKFIELD PROPERTIES CORPORATION, Defendant, and COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY, Appellant. LORI KONOPKA-SAUER et al., Respondents, v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided August 18, 2011.


Colgate seeks to question Dr. Sanborn about a hobby allegedly involving asbestos that she mentioned in her consultation note on Karen Tedrick. Dr. Sanborn wrote that "[Tedrick's] father had some sort of hobby activity or other project in the family basement as the patient was growing up, which the patient's brother reports did involve having asbestos in the basement." Tedrick's brother, Richard Konopka, has already been deposed, however, and testified that this hobby referred...

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