Asbestos/Silica Litigation Reform: S 1038 (2006)

South Carolina

Established minimum medical criteria (based on the AMA guide to the evaluation of permanent impairment) for the filing of asbestos and silica claims. Extended the statute of limitations to when an exposed person discovers or should have discovered his or her physical impairment.

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