John Kelly had been married nearly 40 years when he died of mesothelioma, the result of a high-school construction job that exposed him to asbestos without his knowledge.
But because the asbestos exposure came a few years before his 1976 wedding, Kelly’s widow cannot recover damages under Florida’s Wrongful Death Act for the loss of her husband’s companionship, a state appellate court ruled Wednesday.
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