Personal Injury Law

Tennessee Supreme Court Hears Household Asbestos Exposure Suit

By Greg Webb

The Tennessee Supreme Court recently convened to decide a case in which a twenty three year old woman, Amanda Satterfield, filed suit against her father's employer, ALCOA Inc. and Breeding Insulation Company. Satterfield claims from the time she was born, she was exposed to harmful asbestos fibers and dust due to her father's use of the asbestos products. Unbeknownst to her father, the dust and fibers from his clothes were being transmitted into the family's house leading Amanda to develop mesothelioma, which is a rare cancer associated with exposure to asbestos. Although Amanda died on January 1, 2005 at the age of twenty-five, the suit was continued by her father. The Satterfields are asking for ten million dollars in punitive damages, and another ten million dollars in compensatory damages, although they say the case is about having justice served and doing the right thing.

Full post as published by Charlottesville Personal Injury Lawyer on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).