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  • December 24, 2025

    Couple Says Lawyer Knew Of Motion To Reinstate Asbestos Intentional Injury Case

    SPOKANE, Wash. — While a company complains that it was never served with a motion to reinstate an asbestos case against it alleging intentional injury to an employee, it concedes that electronic service is all that is required and the record shows that its listed attorney received notice of the motion, a couple tells a federal judge in Washington in opposing a motion for reconsideration.

  • December 24, 2025

    Canadian Company Says Asbestos Receivership Ruling Requires Review

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A judge’s ruling appointing a receiver over a foreign company’s insurance assets regardless of where those assets exist was improper and conflicts with various other court rulings, a Canadian asbestos defendant tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a reply in support of its petition for a writ of certiorari.

  • December 24, 2025

    Woman: Asbestos Link Clear, Genetic Testing Unnecessary In Mesothelioma Case

    NEW ORLEANS — A family history of diseases with clear links to asbestos exposures does not warrant permitting a blood draw to identify potential genetic causes that even if established would not relieve the defendant of its liability, a woman tells a federal judge in Louisiana in opposing a motion to compel.

  • December 24, 2025

    Asbestos-Based Claims Against Employer Proceed, Connecticut Justice Says

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A man’s asbestos-based negligence claims are governed by a special statute of limitations, and the product liability claim may proceed even though it differs from recent precedent allowing employees to sue their employers for known injuries, a Connecticut justice said in denying a motion to strike.

  • December 23, 2025

    Maryland Jury Awards Nonprofit CEO Nearly $1.56B From J&J For Mesothelioma

    BALTIMORE — A Maryland jury on Dec. 22 awarded a mesothelioma sufferer who operates a nonprofit supporting children $1.5 billion in punitive damages plus compensatory damages for asbestos exposure linked to Johnson & Johnson entities’ talc products.

  • December 22, 2025

    Minnesota Jury Awards $65.5 Million For Talc-Related Mesothelioma

    ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota jury on Dec. 19 awarded a 37-year-old woman and her husband more than $65.5 million for peritoneal mesothelioma she developed after exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson consumer talc.

  • December 17, 2025

    Oil Companies Say Federal Officer Removal Broadened, Not Unlimited

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Various oil companies told the U.S. Supreme Court in a reply brief that while the recently amended federal officer removal statute broadens the realm of conduct subject to federal jurisdiction, worries that the amendment makes removal limitless are unfounded.

  • December 16, 2025

    South Carolina Court Considers Causation, J&J Successorship After Asbestos Verdict

    COLUMBIA, S.C. — A couple awarded more than $60 million for exposure to asbestos in talc and Johnson & Johnson entities filed final briefs before the South Carolina Court of Appeals on challenges to tissue digestion and witness testimony to causation and successor liability.

  • December 16, 2025

    Plaintiff/Defense Experts Testifying Since Jan. 1, 2002

    The following is a listing of plaintiff and defense experts who testified in trials covered by Mealey's Litigation Report: Asbestos since Jan. 1, 2002.

  • December 16, 2025

    Parties Dismissed In Asbestos Liability Suit Against Guaranty Association

    BATON ROUGE, La. — After parties indicated they had reached a settlement, a Louisiana federal judge dismissed claims against certain of the parties in an asbestos liability suit against individuals and multiple entities, including the Louisiana Guaranty Association (LIGA), alleging that a man’s workplace exposure to asbestos particles resulted in his lung disease and death.

  • December 16, 2025

    California Jury Awards $40M In Bellwether Asbestos-Talc Ovarian Cancer Cases

    LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles jury hearing the first two asbestos-talc ovarian cancer bellwether cases found against Johnson & Johnson and handed the plaintiffs $18 million and $22 million awards.

  • December 16, 2025

    Man Appeals Jurisdiction Ruling In Asbestos Suit To North Dakota High Court

    BISMARCK, N.D. — A trial court forwarded a clerk’s certificate of appeal to the North Dakota Supreme Court after that court remanded the case for the limited purpose of determining whether the respondent was correctly dismissed from the action.

  • December 16, 2025

    Railroad Wants Blood Draw, Genetic Testing In Mesothelioma Case

    NEW ORLEANS — A woman with a family history of cancer, including mesothelioma, put her medical condition in play by filing her take-home exposure suit and the court should order a blood draw to allow for whole genome sequencing that can provide potentially dispositive evidence of the cause of her disease, a railroad told a federal judge in Louisiana in a motion to compel.

  • December 16, 2025

    Judge Signs Order Allowing Genetic Testing In Asbestos-Talc Case

    CHICAGO — An Illinois judge signed an agreed order allowing genetic testing in a case alleging exposure to asbestos in talc products.

  • December 16, 2025

    Justice: Expert Opinions Don’t Eliminate Questions In Asbestos Floor Tile Case

    NEW YORK — It is not clear that a floor tile company’s experts considered all potential types of work or avenues of exposure a man experienced when using or working around those using its products, and it is therefore not entitled to summary judgment, a New York justice said.

  • December 11, 2025

    U.K. Supreme Court: Scottish Law Allows Family To Seek Mesothelioma Damages

    LONDON — Scottish law governing damages specifically permits the family of a deceased man to seek damages despite his previous settlement discharging his employer’s liability for any future mesothelioma, the United Kingdom Supreme Court held Dec. 10.

  • December 10, 2025

    Supreme Court Told Asbestos Receiver Ruling Not Worth Review

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should not review an interlocutory ruling appointing a receiver over a Canadian company’s insurance assets related to an asbestos claim, the respondent and the receiver tell the court in opposing the company’s petition for a writ of certiorari.

  • December 10, 2025

    Vanderbilt Challenges Causation, Damages After Environmental Asbestos Verdict

    CANTON, N.Y. — A woman never adequately established that her mother would have been environmentally exposed to talc from a Vanderbilt Minerals LLC mine, let alone that the talc contained asbestos or that the injury was foreseeable, the company says in a post-trial motion challenging a $12.25 million verdict.

  • December 08, 2025

    Federal Judge Extends Stay Of Asbestos Case During Bankruptcy

    NEW ORLEANS — The inequity in preventing a shipyard operator from pursuing its asbestos-related crossclaim against a bankrupt subcontractor’s insurer warrants extending a stay of a tort action for only a brief time, a federal judge in Louisiana said in granting the shipyard company’s motion to reinstate the stay.

  • December 08, 2025

    J&J Affiliate, Study Author Duel Over Fraud Case Dismissal In Supplemental Briefs

    TRENTON, N.J. — The author of a scientific study filed a supplemental brief in New Jersey federal court in further opposition to claims by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) spinoff Pecos River Talc LLC that she fabricated her finding that asbestos disease sufferers in her study were exposed to asbestos from only talcum powder use, saying the company’s supplemental filing “provides no basis to reopen this court’s judgment” dismissing Pecos River’s fraud and trade libel suit.

  • December 04, 2025

    Insurer, Insured Debate Postjudgment Interest After Asbestos Award

    NEW ORLEANS — An insurer in a Dec. 3 response asks for clarification of the period for which insured seeks prejudgment interest after a federal judge in Louisiana entered final judgment for an asbestos defendant on a $338,000 breach of contract claim.

  • December 03, 2025

    Government Withdraws Proposed Asbestos-Talc Cosmetic Testing Rule

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a notice published in the Federal Register, two federal agencies announced that they were withdrawing a proposed rule requiring that talc-containing cosmetics undergo standardized and mandatory testing designed to identify the presence of asbestos.

  • December 02, 2025

    Plaintiff/Defense Experts Testifying Since Jan. 1, 2002

    The following is a listing of plaintiff and defense experts who testified in trials covered by Mealey's Litigation Report: Asbestos since Jan. 1, 2002.

  • December 02, 2025

    New York Justice Excludes Evidence Of Drug Use, Convictions From Asbestos Trial

    NEW YORK — A man’s drug use and convictions from nearly 30 years earlier are not relevant to the central questions in an asbestos lung cancer case and occurred too long ago to be admissible for impeachment purposes, a New York justice said in granting a motion in limine to exclude reference to the evidence at trial.

  • December 01, 2025

    Shipyard Loses Immunity Defense; Parties Debate Daubert Asbestos Trial Challenge

    NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana said government contractor immunity does not preclude claims against a shipyard for failing to warn about or prevent asbestos exposures.  The parties then briefed whether an expert can be confronted at trial with evidence that his testimony was excluded under Daubert in another case.