WATTS v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP.

No. 2012 CA 0620.

135 So.3d 53 (2013)

Alfred WATTS and Rosa Lee Watts v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORP. (Individually and as Successor to Bestwall Gypsum Company); Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation; Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (a/k/a "3M"); North American Refractories Company; General Refractories Company; Harbison-Walker Refractories Company (formerly a Division of Indresco Inc.); Uniroyal, Inc. (Successor to U.S. Rubber Company); The McCarty Corporation; Rapid American Corporation, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Opinion Agreeing in Part and Dissenting in Part by Judge McDonald November 22, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denyse F. Clancy , Lindsey Goldstein , Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Attorneys for Plaintiffs/Appellees Alfred Watts, Rosa Lee Watts et al.

H. Alston Johnson, III , Daina Bray , Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Attorneys for Defendants/Appellants Hebert Brothers Engineers, Inc.

Before KUHN, PETTIGREW, and McDONALD, JJ.


KUHN, J.

Defendant-appellant, Hebert Brothers Engineers, Inc. (Hebert Brothers)1 appeals the trial court's judgment awarding to plaintiffs-appellees, Rosa Lee Watts and her children (the Watts),2 the survival action damages of the decedent, Alfred Watts,3 after his death from lung cancer contracted as a result of his employment with Hebert Brothers on the Dow Chemical Company (Dow...

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