Plaintiffs Fight Appeal, Criticize Defendants' Use of Interlocutory Process

JACKSON, Miss. -- Plaintiffs in Mississippi have accused defendants of abusing the appellate process in their recent effort to seek dismissal of a wrongful death silica case that was brought five years after an initial personal injury claim was filed for the same alleged exposure. Pangborn Corporation, et al. v. Morgan, No. 2010-M-0247-SCT (Miss. Sup. Ct.).

The accusation came in separate March 11 answers to petitions filed last month in Mississippi Supreme Court, where defendants are urging the court to reverse a ruling that allowed the surviving family members of Henry Morgan Jr. to proceed with a claim the defendants …