Met Life: MDL Claims 'Virtually Identical' to Those Recently Dismissed

CLEVELAND - Metropolitan Life is urging the Welding Fume MDL court to grant its motion for leave to file an omnibus summary judgment motion that would effectively dismiss all MDL claims against the company that are virtually identical to those recently thrown out by a state court judge in Ohio. In re: Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation. MDL No. 1535. Case. No. 1:03-cv-17000 (N.D. Ohio).

In a notice of supplemental authority filed Feb. 17 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Met Life contends that an Ohio Court of Common Pleas ruling issued two days earlier …