California CMO Requests Information on Plaintiffs' Diagnoses, Work Sites

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge in California issued a case management order in the first of several recently filed silica cases, requiring plaintiffs to submit information regarding their silica-related diagnoses and alleged workplace exposure. Arbuckle v. Abrasives, Inc., et al., No. CGC-030427520 (Calif. Super. Ct., San Francisco Cty.).

The order, entered July 28 by San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tomar Mason, followed a case management conference held exactly two months earlier in the case, which was filed on behalf of nearly 100 plaintiffs who allegedly developed silica-related injuries as a result of their exposures.

Judge Mason set an Aug. 1 …