NEW YORK - Requests for prices of a company’s pumps and evidence that asbestos insulation was used to insulate such products do not overcome a man’s failure to identify a pump manufacturer’s product as the source of his exposure to asbestos, a New York justice held in an opinion posted Jan. 23 (Anna Palaio v. […]
NEW YORK - A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Jan. 23 said it lacks jurisdiction over an appeal of a $ 2,500 sanctions order against a Fosamax plaintiff’s attorney because the underlying case is stayed (Gary J. Douglas, et al. v. Merck & Co., Inc., No. 10-4196, 2nd Cir.).
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced Jan. 23 that Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) has agreed to pay a $ 425,000 civil penalty to resolve allegations that the company was aware that certain HP lithium-ion battery packs contained a defect or created an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death (In the […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A railroad had no duty to remove unloaded boxcars in a way that prevented the movement of accumulated asbestos fibers at an asbestos plant or to warn facility employees prior to unloading the boxcars, an Illinois appeals court held Jan. 20 (In re: the Estate of Robert Compton, deceased, Margaret Compton v. […]
NEW ORLEANS - The federal judge in Louisiana overseeing litigation arising from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and ensuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Jan. 20 dismissed a wellhead system manufacturer named as a defendant after its summary judgment motion went unopposed (In re: Oil Spill By The Oil […]