Judge: Discovery, Concealment Rules Don’t Save Daughter’s Mesothelioma Case

Mealey's (December 6, 2018, 1:50 PM EST) -- HUNTINGTON, La. — A woman could have discovered the connection between asbestos and her mother’s fatal mesothelioma at the time her death, a federal judge in Louisiana held Dec. 3 in finding her suit filed six years after the death untimely (Judith Punch Rivera v. Huntington Ingalls Inc., et al., No. 18-6795, E.D. La.)....