Settled Party’s Experts Can’t Be Used, Judge Says In Denying Reconsideration

( October 7, 2024, 9:10 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Having failed to oppose a motion for summary judgment two years ago on asbestos exposures occurring after 1969, an asbestos plaintiff cannot now rely on a settled party’s experts in an effort to revive the claim, a federal judge in Louisiana said Oct. 3 in denying reconsideration, precluding the man from relying on the experts and granting judgment on the pleadings to a defendant company....