Co-Worker's Contradictory Testimony Insufficient to Raise Product ID Question, Court Holds

PHILADELPHIA - The contradictory testimony of a woman who claimed to have seen a fellow employee working with a specific asbestos product, then recanted claiming she had not interest in knowing what products were being used, cannot be applied to defeat summary judgment, a state appeals court has held. Wilson, et al. v. A.P. Green Industries, Inc., et al., No. 3493 EDA 2001 (Pa. Super. Ct.).

In one of several recent asbestos rulings, the Pennsylvania Superior Court on Sept. 16 affirmed summary judgment for Flinkote Co., one of several defendants named in a suit filed on behalf of Dolly F. …