Magistrate Recommends Ordering Faulty Valve Maker To Pay $2M To Energy Company

(March 1, 2021, 8:10 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — A federal magistrate judge in New York on Feb. 12 recommended ordering a United Kingdom-based valve maker to pay more than $2 million in damages to an energy company that installed the valves in its steam turbine generator (STG), finding that the plaintiff company sufficiently alleged that the valves were defectively designed and manufactured and that the manufacturer did not issue a sufficient warning about the possibility that disk retainers within the valve could become dislodged during nonthrottling steam flow....