Judge Won’t Reconsider Judgment, Bar Alternative Asbestos Causation Claims

(December 9, 2019, 2:16 PM EST) -- TACOMA, Wash. — A plaintiff’s failure to sufficiently demonstrate exposure in the Merchant Marines as to a single defendant does not warrant reconsideration, but neither does the failure warrant precluding other defendants from pointing to the potential Merchant Marine exposures as a potential cause during the January trial, a federal judge in Washington state said Dec. 6 (Eric Klopman-Baerselman, et al. v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., et al., No. 18-5536, W.D. Wash., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 210879)....