Defendants Offer Procedural Challenge to Design Defect Expert

CLEVELAND - Defendants in a scheduled welding fume trial have asked the trial court to prevent plaintiff Ruben Arroyo from adding a design defect expert to his witness list, saying the addition would be untimely. Arroyo v. Lincoln Electric Co., et al., No. 1:08-wf-17980 [In re: Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1535] (N.D. Ohio).

Lincoln Electric Co. and other defendants also asked Judge Kathleen M. O'Malley, who presides over federal Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation docket in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, to issue a protective order barring Arroyo's requests for discovery on …