Judge: Shipyard-Based Exposures Keep Asbestos Case In Federal Court Post-Latiolais

Mealey's (May 18, 2020, 1:22 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Though he never boarded a ship, a mail dispatcher’s travels around a shipyard likely exposed him to asbestos destined for one of the six U.S. Navy ships under construction at the time, a federal judge in Louisiana said May 14 in denying remand (Robert Bourgeois II v. Huntington Ingalls Inc., et al., No. 20-1002, E.D. La., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 84888)....

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