November 20, 2015
Uniroyal Inc. is the latest of several companies to have reached settlements with the family of a former Louisiana shipyard worker in an asbestos exposure and wrongful death suit, the family and the company said in a federal court filing Friday.
August 04, 2015
A Louisiana federal judge on Tuesday granted the request of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Inc. and others to block certain causation-related testimony by the plaintiffs' expert in a suit brought by the family of a former shipyard worker who died of asbestos-related cancer, but ruled the expert could speak on more general matters.
July 30, 2015
Insurers including OneBeacon America Insurance Co. and insulation contractors and distributors The McCarty Corp. and Eagle Inc. sought Thursday to block testimony by the plaintiffs' expert in a suit from the family of a former shipyard worker who died of asbestos-related cancer.
June 18, 2015
Huntington Ingalls Inc. dodged insurance claims associated with an asbestos suit when a Louisiana federal judge on Wednesday ruled the company was not responsible for decades-old insurance policies that it had bought back from defunct companies.
June 10, 2015
The family of a former shipyard worker who died of asbestos-related cancer told a Louisiana federal court Tuesday that Huntington Ingalls Inc. can't escape their insurance claims based on an argument that it isn't an insurer, because the shipbuilder had cut deals with its insurers that let them walk away from its policies.
June 08, 2015
Huntington Ingalls Inc. and two insurers have escaped claims for "mental anguish" damages from the family of a former shipyard worker who died of asbestos-related cancer, after a Louisiana federal judge ruled Monday family members did not directly witness her alleged injury.
March 17, 2014
A Louisiana federal court on Friday freed General Electric Co. from an asbestos injury suit that accused the technology giant of supplying turbines to a shipyard where a Louisiana woman worked for years before succumbing to the asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma.