Unopposed Summary Judgment Estops Asbestos Action, Federal Judge Says

(March 21, 2017, 9:42 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — An unopposed summary judgment motion involved the same parties and allegations, despite longer alleged exposures to asbestos and the original plaintiff’s death, a federal judge in Missouri held March 8 in finding that collateral estoppel precluded the action (Diane MacCormack, Nancy Broudy, and Karen Loftus, as personal representatives of Berj Hovsepian v. The Adel Wiggins Group, et al., No. 16-414, E.D. Mo.; 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32652)....

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