Court Opinion

ID: 9477444
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 06:23:33.853691+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:45:52.797932
License: Public Domain

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge,
specially concurring:
Although I have misgivings about the wisdom of allowing recovery for cancerpho-bia when medical evidence will not support a conclusion that the plaintiff has a probability of developing cancer, see, e.g., Hagerty v. L & L Marine Services, Inc., on reconsideration, 797 F.2d 256 (5th Cir.1987) (Jolly, J. dissenting), I nevertheless concur in the result Judge Johnson reaches. This is a diversity case, of course, and Judge Johnson makes a strong argument that Louisiana would reach the same result *860if presented with the same issue. Neither party has raised whether damages for fear of cancer are recoverable, apparently having conceded that issue on this appeal.
I therefore concur in the result Judge JOHNSON has reached in his lucid opinion.