JPML Rejects Bid to Create Docket for Uponor F1960 Plumbing Fittings Cases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigaiton has denied a request to create an MDL docket for cases resulting from allegedly defective Uponor F1960 brass fittings, calling the centralization of claims against the parties “unworkable.”

In a Sept. 27 order, the JPML said the absence of specific language in the complaints identifying the Uponor F1960 product — as opposed to some other plumbing component — would make it too difficult to determine which of the claims share the common facts necessary to create an MDL docket under Federal rules.

“The exceedingly general language that the homeowners employ in …