Court Grants Georgia-Pacific’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment in 3 Additional Cases

PHILADELPHIA –– The Asbestos Multidistrict Litigation Court has issued orders in three separate cases granting Georgia-Pacific’s motion for partial summary judgment after it found that since the plaintiffs did not properly amend their complaint to include a claim for lung cancer, they are not permitted to recover for that injury.

In the March 13 decisions, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania echoed reasoning it had outlined in a fourth case the same day, in which it found that since the plaintiffs did not amend their complaint to indicate that the decedent developed lung cancer within two …