EFFECTIVE DATE. The Innocent Successor Asbestos-Related Liability Fairness Act shall apply to all asbestos claims filed against an innocent successor on or after the effective date of the Innocent Successor Asbestos-Related Liability Fairness Act. The Innocent Successor Asbestos-Related Liability Fairness Act shall also apply to any pending asbestos claims against an innocent successor in which trial has not commenced as of the effective date of the Innocent Successor Asbestos-Related Liability Fairness Act, except that any provisions of these sections which would be unconstitutional if applied retroactively shall be applied prospectively.
Added by Laws 2013, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 22, § 9, emerg. eff. Sept. 10, 2013.
NOTE: Text formerly resided under repealed Title 76, § 79, which was derived from Laws 2009, c. 228, § 73, which was held unconstitutional by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in the case of Douglas v. Cox Retirement Properties, Inc., 2013 OK 37, 302 P.2d 789 (Okla. 2013).