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Courts in Britain are ruling that a company's asbestos liability does not extend to family members of employees. 
 
Cases decided this way have set a precedent, with many others declining to follow through because costs of litigation are too high. 
 
Many wives and family members of men who worked with asbestos in the 1950s and 1960s became ill with mesothelioma and other cancers because of exposure to dust brought in on the mens' clothing. However the court ruled that this hazard could not have been foreseen, therefore the companies' insurers are not liable.

No compensation for wife mesothelioma victims as asbestos ...

injurywatch - 6/26/2006 10:07 AM

Legal insurers are pulling the plug on claims made by mesothelioma victims where the husband worked in the guilty factory and the wife was contaminated by washing his dust-ridden clothes.
 
It is not in dispute that the late Doreen Ellis died from mesothelioma, a cancer solely caused by exposure to asbestos dust, aged 73 in January 2004 and it seems 'beyond reasonable doubt' that the source of the contamination was the Cape asbestos factory where her husband worked between 1951 and 1953
 
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