JPML Adopts Suggestion to Cease Transfer of Future Asbestos Actions

PHILADELPHIA -- The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has adopted and endorsed a suggestion made by the federal asbestos MDL judge to halt the transfer of future actions to the coordinated docket based on his observation that a "limited number of jurisdictions are continuing to benefit from the transfer and consolidation of cases under MDL-875." In Re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL No. 875 (E.D. Pa.).

In a Dec. 13 order, the JPML said that it will no longer transfer actions to MDL-875, except for cases fitting the exceptions outlined by Judge Eduardo C. Robreno in his suggestion. …