I've done flooring for twenty years
and I know that, you know, in the past I've been in contact
with asbestos-related products and I was gonna ask:
'Is there any way that you can, you know, maybe prove you know say fifteen,
seventeen years ago that I'm, you know, that it may have had
an effect on me, you know, up to now? Yeah, how does that work? Yeah, that's a great question because
if you think of asbestosis or any of the diseases that are caused by
asbestos they're all progressive diseases. So, you go back 17 years, and
persons getting exposed to asbestos, say doing floor tiles, he wouldn't see
a problem until probably about now. That particular condition,
or let me go to the material itself, the flooring industry was real, real bad
with respect to the use of asbestos and the material, the floor and tile itself,
the glues, and just a host of things. And the modern day, you don't typically
see that in flooring today but when a flooring guy would
go in and remove flooring and things like that, to put down new floor, and that's when you get exposed today.
But back in the old days
that was pretty common. Talk to our viewers and people like
Greg about the statute of limitations as it would apply to an asbestos case because we're talking about exposure that occurred many times,
many, many years ago. Help our viewers understand that. Well, the statute of limitation
is that prescribed period when you can bring a lawsuit.
With respect to a person being
exposed to asbestos or one who would like
to bring a claim in Alabama, you've got to overcome
what's called the post 79' rule. So, once you show that a person was
exposed past 1979 to an asbestos product, then you can bring a lawsuit. But for the most part, most of these cases
are filed in many other states where that particular
unique rule is only, well, just saying that rule
is actually unique to Alabama..
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