JACKSON, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) – A Tennessee appeals court held that a mesothelioma lawsuit was proper despite an agreement reached between a railroad company and its employee releasing it from liability of all past and future personal injury claims while settling an asbestosis case in 2002.
Although the two reached a prior negotiated release, freeing Illinois Central Railroad Company from liability, Delores Blackmon filed the lawsuit pursuant to the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, alleging her husband Dolphus Blackmon developed mesothelioma as a result of asbestos exposure while working with the railroad company and later died from his injuries.
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