(October 20, 2023, 2:07 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A widow told a federal judge in Massachusetts on Oct. 19 that she plans interlocutory appeals of the judge’s conclusion that maritime law precludes loss of consortium and punitive damage claims and says that finding pending motions moot as a result of the ruling would be premature. In its own status report filed the same day, defendant John Crane Inc. (JCI) says the ruling conclusively decides 10 pending evidentiary motions....