Salt Lake Tribune by Eric Peterson
Salt Lake, Utah – In a Feb. 15 committee hearing, Rep. Brady Brammer, R-Pleasant Grove, said HB328 was a common-sense approach to making sure asbestos lawsuits only truly target the guilty. The bill, Asbestos Litigation Amendments would require medical proof an individual had been sickened by exposure before a lawsuit could officially be filed. “This is just getting to [medical disclosure] a little earlier in so that you don’t litigate all the way to the end and then decide this person was never sick in the first place,” Brammer said. The bill, Asbestos Litigation Amendments would require medical proof an individual had been sickened by exposure before a lawsuit could officially be filed. For the full text, click here.