Judge: Statute Of Repose Can’t Create Absolute Asbestos Liability Immunity

(April 10, 2018, 10:48 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A federal judge on March 30 declined to read the Massachusetts six-year statute of repose as creating absolute immunity for asbestos-related injuries, keeping alive several claims against a turbine generator manufacturer (June Stearns, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., et al., No. 15-13490, D. Mass., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56363)....