Silica Litigation Gets Mass Tort Billing in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA - Silica litigation has been granted mass tort status in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, after nearly 100 cases alleging silicosis as a result of exposure to dust have been filed over the past year. In Re: Silicosis Litigation, No. March 2003-0001 (Pa. Ct. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Cty.).

The announcement all silica-related cases would be added to the state's complex litigation docket was announced during a status conference on Feb. 21. An order indicating that the cases will be sent to the complex litigation center and overseen by Judge Norman Ackerman was pending, and an inaugural case management …