Ohio Defendants' Screening Motion Seeks Order Regarding Plaintiffs' Diagnoses

CLEVELAND - Borrowing excerpts from the recent federal MDL opinion regarding expert testimony and diagnoses, defendants in the Ohio state silica litigation have asked the judge overseeing the docket there to order plaintiffs to provide additional medical evidence supporting their silicosis claims. In Re: Special Docket Cuyahoga County Silica Cases, Docket No. 73958 (Ohio Comm. Pls., Cuyahoga Cty.).

The defendants filed the motion in Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas on July 5, just days after Federal Silica MDL Judge Janis Graham Jack issued her decision remanding thousands of Mississippi silica claims for lack of jurisdiction. In that decision, Judge …