Broad 1985 Release Bars 2016 Mesothelioma Claim, Louisiana Court Says

(January 31, 2020, 1:55 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A broad 1985 settlement of a pneumoconiosis case released a shipyard of any and all claims, including survival claims arising from a mesothelioma diagnosis more than three decades later, the majority of the Louisiana Supreme Court said Jan. 29 (Gistarve Joseph Sr., et al. v. Huntington Ingalls Inc., et al., No. 2018-CC-02061, La. Sup.)....

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