Court Opinion

ID: 9618388
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 05:11:51.358254+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:04:29.849995
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DAVIS, J. Pro Tern.,
specially concurring.
I fully agree with and join in the majority’s disposition of appellants’ contentions with respect to their stated claims for damages for increased risk of illness, and for distress attributable to cancer-phobia.
As to what I regard as a belated attempt to assert a third and independent claim for relief for expenses for periodic medical monitoring, see Friends for All Children, Inc. v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp., 746 F.2d 816 (D.C.Cir.1984) and the Ayers v. Jackson Township, 189 N.J.Super. 561, 461 A.2d 184 (1983), vacated on other grounds, 202 N.J.Super. 106, 493 A.2d 1314 (1985), cert. granted, 102 N.J. 306, 508 A.2d 191 (1985), litigation cited in the majority opinion, my focus comes to rest on different factors.
*611In none of the three complaints in these actions is it alleged that the level of asbestos exposure was such that special medical monitoring on an annual or other periodic basis is reasonably necessary according to acceptable medical standards, or even appropriate. Nor is the subject even specifically addressed in the prayers to the complaints.
While we must accord a complaint a liberal construction, in a lawsuit which counsel characterizes as “extremely complicated” the basis of a claim for such distinctive relief should be in some manner explicitly set forth. Inasmuch as it was not, I believe the trial court simply and properly granted summary judgment as requested on the two claims that were effectively stated.
NOTE: The Honorable Richard M. Davis, Judge pro tempore has been authorized to participate in this matter by the Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, pursuant to Arizona Const, art. VI, § 20.