Parties Brief Applicability of Ohio Asbestos Legislation to FELA Claims

CLEVELAND - Parties in the Ohio asbestos litigation have traded briefs asking the court to determine whether the state's recently enacted legislation giving priority to claims on the basis of threshold medical criteria applies to FELA actions. In Re: FELA Asbestos Cases Filed by Doran & Murphy, LLP, No. CV-073958 (Ohio Comm. Pls., Cuyahoga Cty.).

In briefs filed this month in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, defendants and those representing FELA claimants put forward their arguments for why the bill, which was signed into law in June and gives priority to asbestos claims that present a prima facie showing …