Lawsuit: Father's Hugs Caused Lung Illness

And here you thought strange lawsuits were only an American phenomenon. A British woman is suing, claiming she developed a terminal asbestos-related condition by hugging her father. Debbie Brewer has been diagnosed with mesolthelioma and believes she was exposed to it by her father, who died from lung cancer last year… Mrs Brewer was six […]

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And here you thought strange lawsuits were only an American phenomenon. A British woman is suing, claiming she developed a terminal asbestos-related condition by hugging her father.

Debbie Brewer has been diagnosed with mesolthelioma and believes she was exposed to it by her father, who died from lung cancer last year…

Mrs Brewer was six years old when her father worked at Devonport dockyard in 1966 and would hug him when he returned home.

An inquest into her father's death in August 2006 found he had died from small cell lung cancer, which was linked to asbestos.

Getting a disease from hugging sounds pretty odd, but if the woman had no opportunity for other asbestos exposure in her life, maybe it was indeed the cause.

There is one difference between lawsuits in the U.S. and the U.K.: damages. The woman is suing for just £75,000 -- $146,000.

Woman claims hugs caused cancer [BBC]