Description
Pleural plaques litigation. Pleural plaques caused by negligent exposure to asbestos, which were of themselves insufficiently serious to give rise to a cause of action, did not found a claim in negligence because they carried a risk of subsequent significant injury and gave rise to consequent anxiety. A defendant who negligently exposed a claimant to the risk of contracting a disease was not liable for free-standing psychiatric injury caused by the fear of contracting the disease.
