Parties Respond to Question of Whether Miss. Cases May Include Out-of-State Plaintiffs

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Plaintiffs and defendants in the silica MDL have filed briefs over the issue of whether recent Mississippi case law governing claims filed by out-of-state plaintiffs should be applied to the approximately 10,000 silica claims pending in MDL 1553. In Re: Silica Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1553 (S.D. Texas).

The briefs, which were filed Dec. 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, present opposing views of the application of Culbert v. Johnson & Johnson, a Mississippi Supreme Court decision that severed a multi-plaintiff pharmaceutical injury case and dismissed 18 …