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July 18, 2018 In MTK Food Services, Inc. v. Sirius America Insurance Company, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, Docket NoA-1309-17T2, Approved for Publication, June 29, 2018, the New Jersey Appellate Division considered whether the Pennsylvania’s two-year statute of limitation or whether New Jersey’s six-year statute of limitation applied […]

July 18, 2018 New updates to the Toxic Substances Control Act prompted the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to issue a proposed significant new use rule (“SNUR”) last month. In the first action of its kind related to asbestos, the SNUR will give the EPA power to investigate and prevent new […]

Introduction. On June 29, 2018, the New Jersey Appellate Division issued its unpublished decision in Rowe v. Bell & Gossett, Docket No. A-4530-14T2 (App. Div. 2018) where, in response to Plaintiffs’ appeal, it reversed the April 27, 2015 judgment of $304,152.70, plus interest, against the lone defendant at trial, Universal […]

July 10, 2018 On May 30, 2018, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania trial court rejected a personal injury plaintiff’s argument that an out-of-state corporation consented to personal jurisdiction when it filed registration to conduct business in Pennsylvania. In an opinion written by the Honorable Arnold L. New, in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern […]

July 10, 2018 Many times, a jury will award the plaintiff all of her economic damages but nothing in terms of noneconomic damages. In Micalizzi v. Stewart , 181 Conn.App. 671 (2018), the Connecticut Appellate Court addressed this situation yet again, but under circumstances that may make it even more […]

July 10, 2018 On July 9, 2018, the New Jersey Appellate Division issued its unpublished decision in Condon v. Pecora Corporation, et al ., Docket No. A-3642-14T1 (App. Div. 2018), wherein it reversed the trial court’ s denial of Pecora’ s summary judgment motion and vacated Pecora’ s portion of […]

July 10, 2018 The Honorable Gibney, P.J. in the Providence County Superior Court of Rhode Island on June 26, 2016 denied Defendant, Evenheat’s motion for leave to renew its motion for summary judgment in Loretta Belac v. 3M Company, Et. al . In a ruling that essentially prevented Evenheat from […]

July 10, 2018 In a recent Rhode Island Superior Court decision, Nichols v. Allis Chalmers Prod. Liab. Trust, the Court (Taft-Carter, J.) denied the defendant employer’s motion for summary judgment, ruling that an employer had a duty to protect third party non-employees who came into contact with its employee’s asbestos-covered […]

June 29, 2018 Since 2009, Delaware courts have adhered to the “take home” asbestos exposure principles set forth in the prior decisions of Riedel and Price. In those cases, the Courts held that an employer could not be held liable in tort to the employee’s spouse who laundered his asbestos-covered […]