3M Files Motion to Create Inactive Docket for Silica MDL Claims

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Defendant 3M Co. has filed a motion in the federal silica MDL, asking the court to appoint a panel of independent medical advisors to assist in creating an inactive docket for claimants who allege injury as a result of silica exposure, but who are not yet impaired. In Re: Silica Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1553 (S.D. Texas).

3M's motion, filed Nov. 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, urges Judge Janis Graham Jack to adopt a procedure for weeding out what the defendant says are fraudulent X-ray diagnoses that …