AMCHEM PRODUCTS v. NEWPORT NEWS CIR. COURT

Record No. 012576.

563 S.E.2d 739 (2002)

264 Va. 89

AMCHEM PRODUCTS, INC., et al., v. NEWPORT NEWS CIRCUIT COURT ASBESTOS CASES, Plaintiffs.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 7, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Wyner (John Moustakas; Richard L. Matheny, III; Bruce T. Bishop; Joyce Jackson Wood; Stephen R. Jackson; Daniel T. Campbell; Shea & Gardner; Wilcox & Savage, on briefs), Norfolk, for appellants.

Donald Patten (Avery T. Waterman, Jr., Newport News; Richard S. Glasser, Norfolk; Patten, Wornom, Hatten, & Diamonstein, Newport News; Glasser & Glasser, Norfolk, on brief), for appellees.

Present: All the Justices.


HASSELL, Justice.

In this interlocutory appeal, we consider whether the circuit court erred by refusing to require the litigants to resolve their purported dispute in accordance with an arbitration provision in a contract.

II.

Five hundred and ninety-seven individual plaintiffs filed lawsuits in the circuit court against certain asbestos manufacturers and/or distributors, including the defendants, Amchem Products, Inc., C.E. Thurston and Sons, Inc...

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