Magistrate Judge: Asbestos Plaintiffs Don’t Have Info Guaranty Association Seeks

Mealey's (June 15, 2022, 2:10 PM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana federal magistrate judge on June 13 denied a motion to compel responses to discovery filed by the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA), the statutory obliger for an insolvent insurer in an asbestos exposure suit filed against the insurer, finding that plaintiffs lack the information requested and that LIGA’s settlement-related request is “premature.”...