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 ORLEANS - A former BP America Inc. employee who was the state planning lead for cleanup operations in the Gulf of Mexico after the oil spill caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 filed suit on Jan. 20 in Louisiana federal court, alleging that he was terminated for […]
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. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court considered at its Jan. 20 conference a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Louisiana crawfish buyers and packers who allege liability against the manufacturer of a pesticide used by the growers of the crawfish for business losses and announced Jan. 23 that the petition is denied […]
NEW ORLEANS - A unanimous Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Jan. 23 affirmed summary judgment for the United States against Alabama and Mississippi claimants in the multidistrict Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer formaldehyde products liability litigation for lack of subject matter jurisdiction (In re: FEMA Trailer Formaldehyde Products Liability Litigation, No. 10-30921 […]