Georgia Supreme Court: Asbestos Cases

Our case-law library holds 5 asbestos decisions from the Georgia Supreme Court (2004–2016). Each links to our summary and the full opinion.

• State: Georgia
• Kind of court: State supreme court

Decisions

• Certainteed Corporation v. Fletcher (2016). The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals in part (reinstating Fletcher's design-defect claim against CertainTeed) and reversed in part (holding CertainTeed owed no duty to warn her, so summary judgment for CertainTeed on failure to warn was proper).
• Scapa Dryer Fabrics, Inc. v. Knight (2016). The Georgia Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' affirmance of the judgment for Roy Knight and his wife against Scapa Dryer Fabrics, holding that admitting Dr. Abraham's causation testimony was an abuse of discretion.
• Georgia-Pacific, LLC v. Fields (2013). The Georgia Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals, which had affirmed partial summary judgment for the Fieldses barring Georgia-Pacific and Union Carbide from asserting nonparty fault, holding the defendants could rely on the Fieldses' pleading admissions and that the 'right for any reason' rule could not be used to affirm on causation.
• DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Ferrante (2006). The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the trial courts' rulings that Georgia's 2005 asbestos claims Act could not constitutionally be applied to the plaintiffs' pending asbestos cases, so the plaintiffs won and the defendants lost.
• John Crane, Inc. v. Jones (2004). The Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the Court of Appeals, upholding the $1,975,000 verdict for Laila Jones against John Crane, Inc. and the trial court's refusal to give a "substantial contributing factor" jury charge.