Settlement of Philadelphia Silica Cases Leaves Two Unresolved

PHILADELPHIA - All but two of the 44 silica cases set for trial in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court over the next few months have been resolved after nearly six years on the court's mass tort docket. In Re: Silicosis Litigation, No. March 2003-0001 (Pa. Ct. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Cty.).

Sources told HarrisMartin Publishing that the bulk of cases settled in October, just days before trial was set to begin in the first of four trial groups that Judge Sandra Mazer Moss has designated for trial every month until January 2010. The first group of cases was resolved in late August, …