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November 10, 2025
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Federal officer removal is designed to prevent government-led companies from having to litigate in state court, and a stay while the company appeals a remand ruling in an asbestos case is entirely consistent with congressional intent, General Electric Co. tells a federal judge in Kentucky.
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November 10, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Neither evidence that a glazing product didn’t contain a company’s talc during certain periods nor the lack of evidence of shipments of the company’s talc to the San Jose, Calif., facility shifts a company’s burden in a mesothelioma case, a California judge said in denying summary judgment and adjudication on Nov. 7.
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November 07, 2025
SPOKANE, Wash. — A federal judge in Washington reinstated a mesothelioma case after nearly a decade, saying the Washington Supreme Court’s recent conclusion that plaintiffs can meet the deliberate injury standard by showing the employer knew an injury was “virtually certain” to occur justified reopening the case.
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November 07, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — An insurance company filed a notice indicating that it would appeal a decision finding it liable for the defense of an asbestos suit in a case in which a federal judge in Louisiana awarded $348,000 for breach of contract but finding that its arguments were not frivolous.
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November 05, 2025
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — There was no way to know that defendants would want an expert’s emails about a study, more than three years before the filing of a trade libel case, and even if the originals were deleted, Pecos River Talc LLC never investigated whether it could obtain the evidence through other means, an asbestos-talc expert tells a federal judge in Virginia in opposing sanctions for evidence spoliation.
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November 04, 2025
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.
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November 04, 2025
NEW YORK — A medical provider already ordered to comply with a subpoena seeking information related to the identities of individuals in expert Jacqueline Moline’s mesothelioma-talc studies cannot avoid compliance with an identical subpoena in a different case, a special master in New York said in recommending that the court grant a motion to compel.
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November 04, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana, declining to reconsider his decision holding an insurer liable for defense costs in an asbestos case, said he would award $348,000 for breach of contract but rejected arguments that the insurer’s conduct constituted bad faith or misrepresentations about the policy.
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November 03, 2025
JACKSON, Miss. — An oil company told a Mississippi appellate court that a woman merely rehashes already rejected arguments about why she didn’t pursue her asbestos personal injury case that was pending for nine years and isn’t entitled to reconsideration of a ruling affirming dismissal for lack of prosecution while she litigated parallel bankruptcy-related issues.
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November 03, 2025
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A woman tells a federal judge in Kentucky that General Electric Co. is unlikely to prevail on its claims of entitlement to federal jurisdiction and would not be harmed by allowing the case to proceed while it appeals a remand order.
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October 31, 2025
RALEIGH, N.C. — Neither the results of a bellwether trial nor a consent decree governing how those asbestos cases should proceed binds a workers’ compensation case filed during the pendency of the trial, a widow tells the North Carolina Supreme Court in urging it to deny a petition challenging a ruling allowing her to present evidence.
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October 31, 2025
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Johnson & Johnson filed a notice that it would appeal a Connecticut verdict in which the judge awarded $10 million in punitive damages and declined to grant a new trial in the wake of a $25 million asbestos-talc verdict against the company and various related entities.
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October 30, 2025
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Florida jury awarded $20 million to a man for his father’s death from mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talc-based consumer products, sources told Mealey Publications.
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October 30, 2025
NEW YORK — The New York Court of Appeals denied a motion for leave to appeal in a case in which a lower court found that testimony from an industrial hygienist and thoracic surgeon satisfied the specific causation standard in New York and that precluding a boiler company from cross-examining the surgeon about exposures for which it had not established liability was not an error.
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October 30, 2025
BATON ROUGE, La. — After parties filed a status report indicating a resolution of claims, 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.
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October 29, 2025
WILMINGTON, Del. — Companies frequently named in asbestos litigation likely have only one avenue to obtain information on plaintiffs’ asbestos trust claims crucial to the defense of suits and may continue with their challenge to trust rules that would preserve those filings for only a year, a Delaware vice chancellor said in denying a motion to dismiss.
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October 27, 2025
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky workers’ compensation law binds the carrier responsible for the last injurious exposure to asbestos in a workers’ compensation case, even though that insurer did not participate in previous proceedings as a result of a change to the last date of exposure, the Kentucky Supreme Court said in affirming a lower appellate court ruling.
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October 27, 2025
NEW YORK — A trio of courts recently affirmed the validity of subpoenas targeting asbestos expert Jacqueline Moline, and those rulings support the conclusion that a previous effort to subpoena the expert was not sanctionable conduct, a defendant tells a federal judge in New York in opposing a hospital’s motion for sanctions.
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October 23, 2025
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A federal judge in Kentucky stayed a remand order and reopened an asbestos case against General Electric Co. for briefing on an emergency motion for stay as the defendant launched an appeal of the ruling finding that a disclaimer stripped federal officer issues from the case.
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October 22, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA) seeking review of an appellate court’s reversal of a ruling granting summary judgment to an insurer and to LIGA but denying a motion for partial summary judgment filed by family members in a dispute over their deceased relative’s death purportedly from asbestos exposure.
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October 21, 2025
TRENTON, N.J. — Allowing Johnson & Johnson entities to inspect expert William Longo’s laboratory at this stage would be too burdensome, but they may depose one of his employees on past testing methods, the judge overseeing the federal multidistrict talc litigation in New Jersey said Oct. 20 in partially sustaining objections to a special master’s ruling.
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October 21, 2025
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.
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October 21, 2025
LOS ANGELES — Plaintiffs in consolidated talc litigation in California told the judge that their experts’ general causation opinions involving talc and asbestos are supported by the evidence and regulatory bodies and should not be excluded. Johnson & Johnson and Red River Talc LLC filed replies arguing that the plaintiffs are misrepresenting the situation.
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October 21, 2025
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A Connecticut judge turned away challenges to expert testimony, jury instructions and a bevy of other issues in denying Johnson & Johnson entities’ request for a new trial or to set aside a $25 million asbestos-talc verdict.
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October 20, 2025
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina jury returned a verdict for Johnson & Johnson entities in an asbestos-talc mesothelioma trial, finding that the companies were not negligent or strictly liable for the man’s disease .