Mealey's ( April 8, 2024, 9:38 AM EDT) -- HARTFORD, Conn. — A judge in Connecticut consolidated four asbestos cases, turning aside the former employer defendant’s argument that the “superficial” similarities between the cases did not overcome the challenges posed by the presence of the certain injury exception to workers’ compensation law and that any trial would leave the jury with the “herculean task” of sorting through the evidence....