Statute Of Repose Dooms Merchantability Asbestos Claims, Judge Says

Mealey's (May 16, 2019, 10:04 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — General Electric Co. designed, planned and constructed generators, and plaintiffs’ focus on its provision of insulation cannot save breach of implied warranty of merchantability claims from the state’s statute of repose, a federal judge in Massachusetts held May 14 (June Stearns, et al. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., et al., No. 15-13490, D. Mass., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80799)....