Kestenbaum v. Durez Corp.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Sherry Klein Heitler, J.), entered January 6, 2014, which denied defendant Union Carbide Corporation’s motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff commenced this action to recover for injuries and resulting death suffered by her decedent husband allegedly due to exposure to products containing asbestos. Although defendant Union Carbide Company did not actually manufacture the finished laminate product, it was alleged to have been the supplier of the asbestos-containing product of which the laminate sheets consisted.

Even…