2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 15 - Civil Remedies and Procedures
CHAPTER 81 - SUCCESSOR ASBESTOS-RELATED LIABILITY FAIRNESS ACT
Section 15-81-130. Applicability of limitations granted successor.
(A) The limitations of Section 15-81-140 apply to a corporation that is a successor and became a successor before January 1, 1972, or is a successor of that corporation's successors.
(B) The limitations of Section 15-81-140 do not apply to:
(1) workers' compensation benefits paid by or on behalf of an employer to an employee pursuant to Title 42, or a comparable workers' compensation law of another jurisdiction;
(2) a claim against a corporation that does not constitute a successor asbestos-related liability;
(3) an insurance company, as defined in Chapter 1, Title 38;
(4) an obligation pursuant to the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, or pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement; or
(5) 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: 2006 Act No. 280, Section 1, eff May 23, 2006, applicable to civil actions asserting an asbestos claim filed on or after that date.
