Sources: Plaintiff Misled Counsel on Severity of Disability

CLEVELAND -- The next plaintiff set to have his claims heard by a jury in the Welding Fume Products Liability MDL has voluntarily moved to dismiss the case less than a month after defendants said he admitted to lying about the extent of his alleged welding-related injuries. In re: Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1535 (N.D. Ohio).

Sources involved with the lawsuit filed by Dewey Morgan told HarrisMartin Publishing that Morgan was not as disabled by his exposure to manganese in welding fumes as he originally testified and that his attorneys have subsequently refused to represent him in …