Real-Time Court Decisions and Other Developments in Asbestos Litigation.
Supreme Court of New York, New York County, December 29, 2021 In this asbestos action, the plaintiffs filed a motion to reargue a previous decision that granted defendant Nissan’s motion for summary judgment based on misidentification of their product. By way of background, Nissan argued that Nissan brand vehicles could not have contributed to the …
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, December 20, 2021 The plaintiff filed suit alleging that he was diagnosed with mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos spanning from the 1950s to 1980s, including take-home exposure from his father’s and brother’s work at Avondale Shipyards, personal exposure from his own work at …
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, December 2, 2021 In this matter the plaintiff, Darlene Data, sued numerous defendants on behalf of her husband, Michael Data, who was diagnosed with mesothelioma in January 2019 and died on February 6, 2020. Mr. Data served in the United States Navy from June 1969 to …
Supreme Court of New York, Nassau County, November 17, 2021 In this asbestos action, plaintiff Frank Randazzo alleged exposure to asbestos from the following: (1) personally working on Rockwell brakes, (2) breathing in dust on his father’s clothing when his father worked with Cleaver-Brooks boilers and burners, and (3) from Perkins gaskets. Each of the …
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, November 10, 2021 In this asbestos action, plaintiff Dennis Bouck alleged that he developed mesothelioma as a result of repairing locomotives and locomotive parts while working for Kansas City Southern Railway Company (KCSR) from 1964 to 2007. The plaintiff commenced an action against KCSR, as well …
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, November 9, 2021 In this matter, the plaintiff alleged that the decedent, Robie Walls, was exposed to asbestos during his career as a tractor-trailer fleet mechanic from 1960 to 2002. Mr. Walls was diagnosed with mesothelioma in September 2019 and passed away on October 15, …
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, November 4, 2021 In this asbestos action, the plaintiff alleges that the decedent, John Sullivan, was exposed to asbestos from products manufactured by Griscom Russell (Viad’s alleged predecessor) while serving in the U.S. Navy from 1967 to 1980. Viad moved for summary judgment on two grounds. …
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, September 29, 2021 In this asbestos action, plaintiff James Lancaster claimed that his lung cancer was caused, in part, by exposure to asbestos during the course of his 33-year career as a railroad track foreman. The defendant, BNSF Railway Company, pointed instead to the plaintiff’s extensive history …
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana Plaintiff Krutz filed suit inLouisiana state court on April 29, 2020, against a number of defendants, including Amchem, as a result of his alleged asbestos exposures. The case was removed to federal court on June 15, 2020. On Nov. 9, 2020, Krutz died, allegedly as a …
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, September 10, 2021 Decedent James LaFrentz was employed by General Dynamics Corporation from 1978 to 1984 at the Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, as a drill press operator and a machinist. The complaint, filed by the plaintiffs in 2018 on behalf …