3rd Circuit Approves Of Future Asbestos Cancer Release In FELA Case

(December 23, 2016, 8:59 AM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) release properly included future asbestos-related cancer claims based on evidence that both parties understood it as a “known risk,” a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Dec. 16 in affirming dismissal of a lung cancer case (James S. Collier, Mary Elizabeth Collier, H/W v. CSX Transportation Inc., No. 16-1999, 3rd Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 22464)....

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