Concealment Claim Keeps Asbestos Case Against Employer Alive, Judge Says

Mealey's (April 3, 2020, 2:35 PM EDT) -- HARRISBURG, Pa. — Allegations that an employer intentionally withheld the dangers of asbestos and a products liability claim involving its alleged manufacture and supplying of asbestos-containing products to workers survive the Ohio Workers’ Compensation Act bar, a federal judge in Pennsylvania held April 1 in partially granting leave to file an amended complaint (Rhonda J. Gorton, et al. v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., et al., No. 17-1110, M.D. Pa., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56892)....