FELA Asbestosis Settlement Doesn’t Preclude Later Cancer Claim, Ohio Court Says

(January 5, 2017, 3:13 PM EST) -- CLEVELAND — A Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) settlement involving nonmalignant asbestos disease improperly attempted to extinguish future claims and does not bar a man’s lung cancer action, an Ohio appeals court held Dec. 22 (Richard C. Arpin v. Consolidated Rail Corp., et al., No. 104279, Ohio App., 8th Dist.; 2016 Ohio App. LEXIS 5168)....

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