Ill. Judge Orders Parties to Halt Analysis of Autopsy Results of Welding Rod Plaintiff

CHICAGO -- A Cook County judge has ordered both the plaintiffs and defendants in a welding rod case to wait before analyzing brain tissue that was produced for a recent autopsy of a plaintiff alleging neurologic injury as a result of welding rod fumes. Bolatto v. AIRCO/The BOC Group, et al., No. 04 L 1042 E (Ill. Cir. Ct., Cook Cty.).

In a Sept. 16 order, Judge Jennifer Duncan-Brice of the Illinois Circuit Court for Cook County said that the parties were to preserve all existing materials and ordered that no further exam or testing take place until future court …