When Did Johns-Manville Know?
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The case study titled, “?”, is primarily concerned with the issue of an employer’s liability with respect to the health and safety of its employees. This case deals specifically with how much of what an employer knows, or ought to know, about a potential hazard should be communicated to work ....
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.... were enough to cause the Prudential Insurance Company to suspend life insurance policies on asbestos workers.
The Johns-Manville company was a producer and supplier of asbestos in the United States. According to J-M, the company had followed asbestos safety standards, later set forth by the U.S. Public Health Service in 1938, since the early 1930’s. The firm also alleges they had no knowledge of asbestos related cancer until as late as 1964. According to the evidence presented in the t ....
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