Florida Statute 774.003 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 774
ASBESTOS-RELATED AND SILICA-RELATED CLAIMS

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F.S. 774.003

774.003 Applicability.—

(1) The limitations in s. 774.004 apply to a corporation that is a successor and became a successor before January 1, 1972, or is any of that successor corporation’s successors.

(2) The limitations in s. 774.004 do not apply to:

(a) Workers’ compensation benefits paid by or on behalf of an employer to an employee under chapter 440 or a comparable workers’ compensation law of another jurisdiction;

(b) Any claim against a corporation that does not constitute a successor asbestos-related liability;

(d) Any obligations under the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, or under any collective bargaining agreement; or

(e) A successor that, after a merger or consolidation, continued in the business of mining asbestos; in the business of selling or distributing asbestos fibers; or in the business of manufacturing, distributing, removing, or installing asbestos-containing products that were the same or substantially the same as those products previously manufactured, distributed, removed, or installed by the transferor.

History.—s. 3, ch. 2005-269.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 774.003

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 774.003.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 774.003

Total Results: 4

Mercurio v. Headrick

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2008-06-18T00:53:00-07:00

Citation: 983 So. 2d 773

Snippet: prejudicial to the interest of the Defendant," *774 and (3) the partition action was for both parties'

Freedman v. Transworld Airlines, Inc.

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 1976-06-08T00:00:00-07:00

Citation: 336 So. 2d 373

Snippet: Eastern Air Lines, Inc., 5th Cir. 1952, 194 F.2d 774 ; 3 Fla.Jur., Assault and Battery, § 5; 6 Am.Jur.2d

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Court: Fla. Att'y Gen. | Date Filed: 1974-03-28T00:53:00-07:00

Snippet: doctrine of res judicata. Rubin v. Sanford, 168 So.2d 774 (3 D.C.A. Fla., 1964); Metropolitan Dade County Board

Bloxham v. Florida Central & Peninsular Railroad

Court: Fla. | Date Filed: 1895-01-14T23:53:00-08:00

Citation: 35 Fla. 625

Snippet: , Ft. Scott & Memphis R. R. Co., 52 Kansas, 774; 3 Wood’s Railway Law, sec. 486; Tomlinson vs. Branch