1. May 2007 - A quick stroke of the pen, Governor Sonny Perdue approved a new law that strictly limits on asbestos litigation, the demonstration of disease.
Sponsored by Sen. John Wiles (R-Marietta) and supported by Georgia Trial Lawyer's Association, it aims court dockets by priority for cases in which the applicant clearly demonstrate definitively disease of asbestos. Wiles said the statement, "This would allow people who are really sickto move the line before. "
Prior to the adoption of the Act that an application may be filed if a person was exposed, but do not have a confirmed diagnosis of asbestos-state. The number of cases creates legal uncertainty critics consistently argued that asbestos litigation was the establishment of a flood of junk processes.
A recent study showed that had been in the United States alone more than 730,000 asbestos claims were filed and 2002 and at least 8400Defendants have received more than 70 billion U.S. dollars. Georgia has a number of these processes, as it is home to the headquarters of the Georgia-Pacific company, which has long been a target of asbestos lawsuits.
Asbestos was widely used for insulation and fire protection in the 1980s, when their health risks were revealed. It is a carcinogen by inhalation and exposure to lead, often fatal disease mesothelioma. Asbestos diseases usually take 20 +Years to develop, and patients are often diagnosed when they are in the advanced stages.
This is not the first time the state has to try and limit asbestos-litigation. An earlier law was rejected by the Supreme Court of Georgia are in 2006 and the new law would probably be questioned.
The new law was the same type as in Ohio, Florida, Texas, Kansas, Texas and South Carolina in force. Demonstrate a person who needs to lodge a claim in Georgia that they have some physicalImpairment caused by asbestos. Others were exposed to asbestos can not complain until she became ill, under the law.
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