Millison v. E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

In this case employees and former employees of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (du Pont), suffering from painful and fatal asbestos engendered diseases, wish to bring common-law actions against du Pont and its physicians for intentional infliction of injuries. All the plaintiffs worked at various du Pont manufacturing plants in New Jersey for periods of twenty *189years or more. The workers allege that during the course of their employment, their employer, du Pont, through the company physicians, “knew, or in the exercise of reasonable medical care should have known, of the dangers inherent in…