Judge Nixes Asbestos Contribution, Set-Offs From Third-Party Counterclaims

(March 7, 2017, 1:34 PM EST) -- CHRISTIANSTED, Virgin Islands — While the Virgin Islands continues to recognize the doctrines, an oil company’s attempt to bring contribution and set-off claims fail, leaving only its indemnification claim in an asbestos third-party case, a Virgin Islands judge held in an opinion posted March 2 (Albina Willie, personal representative of the estate of Terence Willie v. Amerada Hess Corp., et al., No. SX-06-CV-202, V.I. Super., St. Croix Div.)....

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