Hearing on Referral of Welding Claims To Mass Litigation Panel Set for June 23

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The pending to transfer nearly a dozen W.Va. a dozen welding rod cases to a mass litigation panel is set to be heard on June 23 before Judge Arthur M. Recht of the West Virginia Circuit Court of Ohio County. Skiles, et al., v. Lincoln Electric, et al., No. 03-C-2299 (W.Va. Cir. Ct., Kanawha Cty.).

The May 18 notice of the hearing comes after Acting Chief Justice Joseph P. Albright issued an April 27 order stating that enough evidence existed in the defendant's motions to refer the welding rod cases to a mass litigation panel under West …