A GROWING NUMBER of states across the country are approving or considering medical-criteria laws in an attempt to control large numbers of asbestos or silica claims filed by people diagnosed with related diseases who have no physical impairment.
Bills are awaiting governors’ signatures in Kansas, South Carolina and Tennessee. These states are following the lead of Ohio, which first enacted medical criteria for asbestos cases in 2004. Laws establishing medical criteria for asbestos and silica claimants took effect last year in Georgia, Florida and Texas.
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