X-Ray Screener Moves to Set Aside Default in RICO Case

JACKSON, Miss. - The president of an X-ray screening company has asked a judge to set aside a default judgment entered against him in a federal RICO lawsuit that accused his company and others of fabricating lung injury diagnoses. National Service Industries Inc. v. Segarra, et al., No. 09-83 (S.D. Miss.).

Charles E. Foster, president of Respiratory Testing Service Inc., filed the Dec. 15 motion in Mississippi's Southern District U.S. Court to set aside the entry of default, citing his failing health and ignorance of the judicial process.

Foster, whose company figured prominently in the federal silica MDL, was named …