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October 14, 2025
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge denied a motion by an asbestos plaintiffs’ expert to quash a subpoena for documents and deposition testimony in a discovery dispute with Johnson & Johnson spinoff Pecos River Talc LLC, finding that the requested discovery is relevant and would not be burdensome to produce.
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October 13, 2025
OAKLAND, Calif. — A couple whose asbestos-pipe case a California jury rejected earlier this year filed notice on Oct. 10 stating that they intend to move for a new trial, citing irregularities in the proceedings and errors of law that led a jury to find that a company’s product performed as a consumer would expect and that the company was not negligent.
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October 10, 2025
RALEIGH, N.C. — A bellwether trial finding lack of exposure evidence in workers’ compensation claims binds all claimants with shared interests, a tire company tells the North Carolina Supreme Court in asking for review of a ruling allowing some of the claims to proceed.
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October 09, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 8 requested responses to a petition challenging a South Carolina justice’s appointment of a receiver over the insurance assets of a solvent Canadian company as a sanction for its failure to participate in discovery in an asbestos action.
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October 08, 2025
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Oct. 7 heard oral arguments about whether Dravo LLC’s dissolution imposed a two-year cap on asbestos claims or whether corporate actions left its parent company liable for those claims.
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October 08, 2025
LOS ANGELES — A California jury awarded $966 million — including $950 million in punitive damages — in an asbestos-talc case against Johnson & Johnson after finding the company negligent and that it failed to disclose the danger its products posed.
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October 07, 2025
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge in California allowed punitive damages to proceed and found sufficient questions about whether a turbine manufacturer required asbestos parts as required by Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. v. DeVries to survive summary judgment but denied a widow summary judgment on the company’s government contractor defense.
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October 07, 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 07, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS — The estate of a woman who died of mesothelioma told an Indiana appellate court that the appendix filed with its brief complies with state law governing such filings and that the court should deny a motion to dismiss the appeal.
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October 07, 2025
LOS ANGELES — California law does not permit a good faith settlement finding for a dental supply company that reached the agreement after a jury found it liable for a man’s asbestos exposure and awarded damages but before a punitive damages phase, a joint compound manufacturer told a California judge.
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October 07, 2025
LOCKPORT, N.Y. — A talc manufacturer’s past operations in New York and its deal with a distributor who solicited businesses that it knew would sell consumer products in the state create sufficient contacts for jurisdiction, a New York justice said in denying a motion to dismiss.
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October 06, 2025
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Honeywell International Inc. announced in a press release that it has divested itself of Bendix-brand legacy asbestos liabilities with a capitalized corporate liability acquisition platform assuming the risk and indemnifying the company.
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October 06, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Insurance and business interests told the U.S. Supreme Court that jurisdiction ends at a state’s borders and urged the court to reject a South Carolina justice’s appointment of a receiver over the assets of a solvent Canadian company as a discovery sanction in an asbestos case.
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October 03, 2025
WILMINGTON, Del. — The Delaware Supreme Court in a one-page order affirmed a lower court’s ruling on a man’s loss of use of certain body parts from his asbestos-related disease, saying Delaware Industrial Accident Board and Delaware Supreme Court rulings would be upheld based on the superior court’s bench ruling.
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October 02, 2025
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A Connecticut judge on Oct. 1 added $10 million in punitive damages to a $15 million verdict, saying the evidence showed that the company employed sub-standard testing and choose to accept only evidence that supported the conclusion that its products were free of asbestos.
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October 02, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — A ruling finding that removal applied only to current federal officers is distinguishable from an asbestos case and would result in reading the statute too narrowly, a federal judge in Louisiana said in denying remand.
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October 02, 2025
MISSOULA, Mont. — A railway in a response brief tells a federal judge in Montana that the United States’ motion for partial remand of a writ of execution is just its latest effort to impede collection of a multimillion-dollar judgment from a Libby, Mont., asbestos screening firm.
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October 02, 2025
SEATTLE — An order dismissing asbestos-related negligence and warning claims doomed consumer expectation and design defect claims resting on the dismissed claims, a judge in Washington said in denying a motion for reconsideration.
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September 24, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania declined to stay remand while John Crane Inc. appeals a decision finding that post-removal disclaimer of liability for asbestos exposures on government ships prevented federal jurisdiction, saying he was not convinced the ruling triggered an automatic stay or that the court’s conclusion was incorrect.
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September 23, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States told the U.S. Supreme Court that 2011 amendments broadened the federal officer removal statute, which now encompasses tasks even related to those directed by the government.
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September 23, 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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September 23, 2025
MIDDLESEX, Mass. — A Massachusetts jury found American Art Clay Co. Inc. liable for exposing a woman to asbestos in talc-based clay products and awarded her widower $80 million, including $60 million in punitive damages.
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September 23, 2025
OMAHA, Neb. — National Indemnity Co. (NICO) and a reinsurer it sued for breach of contract and declaratory judgment jointly moved in Nebraska federal court to dismiss the reinsurer with prejudice as part of NICO’s suit to enforce its reinsurers’ obligations for incurred liabilities related to asbestos exposure stemming from a Montana mine.
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September 23, 2025
WILMINGTON, Del. — Parties to a $9 million Delaware asbestos verdict concluded briefing on whether expert and fiber release evidence was sufficient to support the jury’s causation finding in a case involving exposure from shotgun shells.
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September 22, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. on Sept. 21 filed a notice indicating that it intends to appeal a decision finding the presence of an unserved nondiverse defendant fatal to its removal of an asbestos case and that its actions in state court demonstrated an intent to litigate the case there and waived the right to removal.