Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code

§ 90.003 — REPORTS REQUIRED FOR CLAIMS INVOLVING ASBESTOS-RELATED INJURY

CP § 90.003Title 4. LIABILITY IN TORT · Ch. 90. CLAIMS INVOLVING ASBESTOS AND SILICA · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Statute text

(a)A claimant asserting an asbestos-related injury must serve on each defendant the following information:

(1)a report by a physician who is board certified in pulmonary medicine, occupational medicine, internal medicine, oncology, or pathology and whose license and certification were not on inactive status at the time the report was made stating that:

(A)the exposed person has been diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma or other malignant asbestos-related cancer; and

(B)to a reasonable degree of medical probability, exposure to asbestos was a cause of the diagnosed mesothelioma or other cancer in the exposed person; or

(2)a report by a physician who is board certified in pulmonary medicine, internal medicine, or occupational medicine and whose license and certification were not on inactive status at the time the report was made that:

(A)verifies that the physician or a medical professional employed by and under the direct supervision and control of the physician:

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 97 (S.B. 15), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2005.