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Interesting Case Management Issue in Welding MDL

By Sean Wajert on March 31, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

We have posted about the welding fumes MDL before. Call it case management by option– as the court has worked through the bellwether trials, it is in…
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District Court Upholds Punitives in Surprising Decision

By Sean Wajert on March 10, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

In a surprising and somewhat questionable decision, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio recently upheld a jury verdict awarding …
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State Supreme Court Reverses Plaintiff Verdict in Welding Rod Litigation

By Sean Wajert on December 28, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

While a handful of large plaintiff verdicts has garnered much of the media attention, most of the trials involving welding fume claims have been favor…
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Court of Appeals Vacates Jury Verdict for Plaintiff in Welding Case

By Sean Wajert on September 13, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The Sixth Circuit last week vacated one of the rare plaintiff verdicts in the welding rod litigation. Tamraz v. Lincoln Electric Co., et al., 2010 WL …
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Welding Fume MDL Court Releases “Trial Template”

By Sean Wajert on July 6, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The Judge overseeing the Welding Fume Products Liability MDL Litigation has issued a “Trial Template” to assist transferor courts in handl…
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Informal Discovery Leads to Dismissal in MDL

By Sean Wajert on February 2, 2010
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The court in the welding fume MDL litigation has dismissed the claims of the plaintiff who had been chosen for the seventh bellwether trial in this na…
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Defense Jury Verdict In Welding Rod Trial

By Sean Wajert on August 14, 2009
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

A jury in Mason County, W.Va., issued a unanimous verdict last week for welding industry defendants, rejecting claims that injuries to former welder J…
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California Jury Returns Defense Verdict In Welding Fumes Trial

By Sean Wajert on February 16, 2009
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

Jurors in Oakland, CA., concluded last week that welding products manufacturers were not liable for any neurological impairments suffered by a long-ti…
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Defense Jury Verdict In Welding Rod Trial

By Sean Wajert on December 5, 2008
Posted in Articles, Toxic Tort

Defendants last week secured another jury verdict in the federal welding rod MDL trials. Byers v. Lincoln Electric Co.,et al., N.D. Ohio, No. 04-17033…
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MDL Court Holds To Pretrial Deadlines For Next Bellwether Case In Welding Fumes

By Sean Wajert on July 11, 2008
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The MDL court in the In re Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL-1535 (N.D. Ohio) recently issued an interesting Order about mediation. Not …
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