MATTER OF NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIGATION

5493N, 40000/88, 190281/14.

157 A.D.3d 564 (2018)

69 N.Y.S.3d 622

2018 NY Slip Op 00346

In the Matter of NEW YORK CITY ASBESTOS LITIGATION. THERESA WARREN, Respondent, v. AMCHEM PRODUCTS, INC., et al., Defendants, and J-M MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

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

Decided January 18, 2018.


In or around the 1990's, JMM lost and destroyed numerous banker's boxes containing the records of the manufacture, sale, and marketing of pipe which contained asbestos, a line of business it purchased from Johns-Manville in the 1980s. Although the first claim by an end user for personal injuries was not made with regard to that pipe until 2000, plaintiff adduced evidence that JMM was on notice that the records might be needed for future litigation, and thus JMM's behavior...

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