Judge Grants Motion to Stay Baycol Class Action, Cites Inability to Estimate Value of Medical Monitoring Claims

KANSAS CITY, Kan.- The inability to estimate the value of medical monitoring claims as a whole was the basis for a federal judge's recent decision to grant a motion to stay proceedings in a Baycol products liability class action. Knearem, et al., v. Bayer Corporation, et al., No. 02-2096-CM (D. Kan.)

U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia of the District of Kansas states in his May 5 decision that if the putative class' request for medical monitoring is to be considered injunctive relief, it needs to be assessed to determine the amount in controversy before a decision can be made on …