Plaintiff Challenges Summary Judgment Recommendation for Air Compressor Defendant

PORT GIBSON, Miss. - A plaintiff in a Mississippi silica case is urging the case's special master to reconsider a ruling he issued recently in which he recommended that defendant Ingersoll-Rand be awarded summary judgment on claims that the defendant had a duty to warn sandblasters of silicosis risks associated with the company's air compressor. Abbott v. Pulmosan Safety Equipment, et al., No. 2002-308 (Miss. Cir. Ct., Claiborne Cty.).

In motions filed in Claiborne County Circuit Court on May 3, and again on May 13, plaintiff David Dexter Abbott contends that recent evidence indicating that Ingersoll-Rand knew its products would …