( September 14, 2026, 10:59 AM EDT) -- KINGS HILL, St. Croix, Virgin Islands — A Virgin Islands judge denied summary judgment but granted a bifurcated trial, finding that an indirect owner of an aluminum company could be liable to that company’s former employees for negligence and failure to warn about the dangers of the bauxite it supplied for use at the facility and that evidence of the supplier’s net worth will appear in phase 2 only if necessary to avoid introducing prejudice against the company in the first phase of the trial....