Judge Finds Agencies Immune From Asbestos Suit, Hospital Must Face Claims

( August 20, 2025, 4:50 PM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Two West Virginia agencies enjoy sovereign immunity from a woman’s suit alleging that exposure to asbestos during nursing school led her develop incurable lung cancer, but she sufficiently alleges intentional injury on the part of a hospital where she worked as a student, a federal judge in West Virginia said in denying one motion to dismiss but granting two others....