Time For Challenging Asbestos Settlement Expired, 5th Circuit Says

(January 23, 2018, 12:37 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — All of the grounds for finding an asbestos settlement precluding any future wrongful death claim null were “readily apparent” within the five-year period for annulling a contract, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Jan. 4 in affirming (Essie Lemieux, et al. v. American Optical Corp., No. 17-30346, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 231)....

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