United States Ninth Circuit

Under the Jones Act, seamen are not entitled to medical monitoring for asbestos exposure where there is no treatment for asbestos-related illness that would benefit from pre-symptom detection.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/13/2001
• Decided 09/10/2001
• Published 09/10/2001

Judges

• SCHROEDER, Chief Judge:, Before:  SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, WALLACE, TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jay Lawrence Friedheim, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nenad Krek, Carlsmith Ball Wichman Murray Case Mukai & Ichiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, for the defendants-appellees.