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April 10, 2018 Dr. Michael Graham is well known in the realm of asbestos litigation. He is widely recognized as an expert pathologist, an expert medical examiner and an expert at determining causes of death. He is also frequently retained to opine on the causes of asbestos-related diseases. However, in […]

April 4, 2018 In February of 2016, a Missouri jury in the City of St. Louis delivered a stunning $72 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson for injuries caused by the Plaintiff’s use of talc products. The award garnered national attention and highlighted St. Louis as a plaintiff-friendly venue. In […]

March 29, 2018 General Motors was found liable for negligence last summer after an eight-year-old climbed into her parents’ 2004 Chevrolet Suburban, inserted the key into the ignition and placed the car in neutral; the vehicle subsequently rolled downhill, crashed into a tree and fatally injured the child. The administrator […]

March 29, 2018 In Rhode Island, Judge Gibney, a presiding asbestos Judge, issued a decision granting the defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint against it for lack of personal jurisdiction in Murray v. 3M Co. (In re Asbestos Litig.), 2016 R.I. Super. LEXIS 119; this ruling is significant for nonresident […]

March 28, 2018 Kerryann Cook will be speaking at the Tarnished Justice: Asbestos Litigation after the Silver Scandal presentation during theNew York State Federalist Society and the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York’s Asbestos Litigation Event on April 23. This program will be a one-hour panel discussion about asbestos litigation […]

March 22, 2018 Recently in Connecticut, Judge Bellis, the presiding asbestos docket judge in Bridgeport, issued a decision involving a defendant’s challenge to the court’s personal jurisdiction. Rice v. Am. Talc Co., 2017 Conn. Super. LEXIS 4433 (Conn. Super. 2017). In its motion to dismiss, the defendant, Milwhite, argued that […]

March 22, 2018 By Richard E. Fennelly, III When a party is faced with a motion for summary judgment or a motion to dismiss, sometimes it can be difficult to prepare a compelling objection. In this situation, the nonmoving party may choose to avoid addressing the substance of the motion. […]

March 14, 2018 Recently in Poce v. O& G Industries, Inc., et al. the Superior Court, Nobel, J., granted a motion to strike the negligence, recklessness, and premises liability counts of a thirty-count complaint because the plaintiffs failed to allege any “ actual injury” which is an element of these […]

March 14, 2018 The bare metal defense essentially protects a manufacturer from liability for harm caused by asbestos products that the manufacturer did not manufacture or distribute, but rather, were installed by others post-sale, and owes no duty to warn of the dangers inherent to those products. Most commonly, the […]