Illinois Law Amendments to Impact Civil Jury Sizes and Asbestos Claim Potential
Two recent amendments to the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure will have a significant impact upon future civil damage cases and asbestos exposure claims. The first pertains to the reduction of jurors...
View Article“Take Home” and “Bystander” Asbestos Cases on the Rise as a New York Jury...
There has been an increase in asbestos cases where the injured party did not directly work with an asbestos containing product. Last month we reported on a California court allowing a “take home”...
View ArticleGarlock’s Pending Deal May Reduce Future Amounts Required for Asbestos Trusts...
Last year, Judge George Hodges, of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina, ruled that $125 million was an adequate set-aside amount for Garlock Sealing Technologies’ (GST)...
View ArticleKey NYCAL Asbestos Rulings Following $190 Million Verdict. What Does It Mean?
On February 5, 2015, New York County Supreme Court Justice Joan A. Madden issued a post-trial decision involving an asbestos consolidated trial that resulted in a $190 million plaintiffs’ verdict for...
View ArticleMixed Results for Bare Metal Defense in Asbestos Cases Around The Country
Over the past several years, there has been an increase in defendants’ raising the “bare metal defense” in asbestos cases across the country. As the name implies, this defense is generally used by...
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Rising Verdicts in Recent Upstate New York Asbestos Cases May Lead To Higher...
In the last several months, there have been several significant plaintiffs’ verdicts in asbestos cases that may have lasting impact on the way asbestos matters are settled and tried in upstate New...
View ArticlePlaintiffs’ Bar Continues to Find Creative Ways to Stretch the Boundaries of...
As previously reported by Product Liability Playbook, the plaintiffs’ bar continues to seek to expand the scope of liability in asbestos cases beyond injured individuals who directly worked with...
View ArticleUnited States District Court Grants Partial Summary Judgment on Product...
The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington recently granted partial summary judgment on product liability claims to a company who built and supplied vessels to the United...
View ArticleCalifornia Supreme Court Tackles Sophisticated Intermediary Doctrine
Raw suppliers that place their products in the stream of commerce face a dilemma regarding the uncertainty of their duty to warn of the potential hazardous nature of their products. The sophisticated...
View ArticleSimply Naming Defendants in Interrogatory Responses Held Insufficient For...
On May 26, 2016 a decision and order in Blamowski v. Air & Liquid Systems, Inc., et al., Index No. 808655/2014 came down granting summary judgment to several defendants in a take-home deceased...
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