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Thomasenia L. Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (085939) (Middlesex County & Statewide) (A-5-21

 Thomasenia L. Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (085939) (Middlesex County & Statewide) (A-5-21; 085939)

As to the duty to warn, an asbestos manufacturer or supplier that places inadequate warnings on asbestos bags used in the workplace has breached its duty to the worker, regardless of whether it provides the employer with the correct information, which is reasonably intended to reach its employees. As to medical causation, the trial court’s modified Model Jury Charge on proximate cause sufficiently guided the jury.