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IN HB1276
Bill
Status
1/10/2017
Primary Sponsor
Gerald Torr
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AI Summary
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Amends IC 34-20-3-1 to specify that product liability actions include any action for personal injury, disability, disease, or death resulting from protracted exposure to a foreign substance introduced into the body.
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Maintains existing statute of limitations for product liability actions: two years after cause of action accrues or ten years after delivery to initial user/consumer, whichever is shorter.
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Repeals IC 34-20-3-2 entirely, which previously provided special two-year limitations period and accrual rules specifically for asbestos-related product liability claims.
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Removes distinction between asbestos property damage claims and asbestos personal injury claims, subjecting all asbestos-related product liability actions to the standard limitations periods in Section 1.
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Effective date: July 1, 2017.
Legislative Description
Product liability actions. Specifies causes of action that may constitute a product liability action. Repeals provisions pertaining to product liability actions that are based upon: (1) property damage resulting from asbestos; and (2) personal injury, disability, disease, or death resulting from exposure to asbestos.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Judiciary
1/10/2017