RIGGS v. ASBESTOS CORP. LTD.

No. 20110544-CA.

304 P.3d 61 (2013)

2013 UT App 86

Micah RIGGS, Plaintiff, Appellant, and Cross-appellee v. ASBESTOS CORPORATION LIMITED; Georgia-Pacific, LLP; and Union Carbide Corporation, Defendants, Appellees, and Cross-appellants.

Court of Appeals of Utah.

April 4, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan R. Brayton , Gilbert L. Purcell , and Robert G. Gilchrist , Salt Lake City, for Appellant.

Karra J. Porter , Sarah E. Spencer , and Katherine E. Venti , Salt Lake City, for Appellee Georgia-Pacific, LLP.

E. Joshua Rosenkranz , Peter A. Bicks , Morton D. Dubin , Rachel M. McKenzie , and Patricia W. Christensen , Salt Lake City, for Appellee Union Carbide Corporation.

Julianne P. Blanch , Salt Lake City, Mark A. Behrens , and Cary Silverman , for Amici Curiae.

Judge JAMES Z. DAVIS authored this Opinion, in which Judges GREGORY K. ORME and STEPHEN L. ROTH concurred.


Opinion

DAVIS, Judge:

¶ 1 Micah Riggs, on behalf of his mother-in-law, the decedent Vickie Warren,1 appeals the trial court's decision that the Comparative Negligence Act (CNA), and therefore joint and several liability, did not apply in this case. Defendant Union Carbide Corporation cross-appeals, arguing that its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict was wrongly denied because the raw material supplier rule shields...

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