Ruling Allows Asbestos Experts, Rejects Defenses And 4 Summary Judgment Motions

( October 3, 2024, 3:36 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California addressing a handful of motions involving Daubert challenges and various requests for summary judgment admitted a co-worker’s deposition testimony, said the plaintiffs’ experts did not offer the opinion that every exposure to asbestos leads to disease, denied four defendants summary judgment but found that sufficient evidence exists to grant the plaintiffs summary judgment on the sophisticated user and sophisticated intermediary defenses....