Adams v. Owens-Illinois, Inc

In Adams v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 119 Md. App. 395, 705 A.2d 58 (1998), the wife of an asbestos worker contracted asbestosis from washing her husband's work clothing. Id. at 410. The wife sued her husband's employer, Bethlehem Steel, for its failure to warn of latent dangers in the workplace. Id. The wife challenged the trial court's refusal to grant a jury instruction describing this duty to warn. Id. The Court concluded that the jury instruction was properly refused because the wife was not an employee of Bethlehem Steel and "Bethlehem owed no duty to strangers based upon providing a safe workplace for employees." Id. at 410-11.