IN RE WEST VIRGINIA ASBESTOS LITIGATION

No. 31237.

592 S.E.2d 818 (2003)

215 W.Va. 39

In re: WEST VIRGINIA ASBESTOS LITIGATION

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided December 4, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Daley, Esq., Mark T. Coulter, Esq., D. Aaron Rihn, Esq., Pierce, Raimond & Coulter, PC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, James F. Humphreys, Esq., J. David Cecil, Esq., James F. Humphreys & Associates, LC, Charleston, West Virginia, Leslie Crosco, Esq., John R. Rowen, Esq., Edward Beachler, Esq., Hartley, O'Brien, Parsons, Thompson & Hill, Wheeling, West Virginia, Jon B. Orndorff, Esq., Roy D. Baker, Jr., Esq., Baker, Lancianese & Conaty, Huntington, West Virginia, Attorneys for Old Orchard Industrial Corp.

Bruce E. Mattock, Esq., Theodore Goldberg, Esq., Brian Alan Prim, Esq., David B. Rhodes, Esq., Goldberg, Persky, Jennings & White, Huntington, West Virginia, Stuart Calwell, Esq., John H. Skaggs, Esq., The Calwell Practice, PLLC, Scott S. Segal, Esq., The Segal Law Firm, William K. Schwartz, Esq., Harvit & Shwartz, Charleston, West Virginia, Attorneys for Plaintiffs Below, Appellees.

Benjamin L. Bailey, Esq., Jonathan D. Boggs, Esq., Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Charleston, West Virginia, W. Thomas McGough, Sr., Esq., Dona M. Doblick, Esq., Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Attorneys for Railroad Friction Products Co.

Robert H. Sweeney, Jr., Esq., Michael A. Frye, Esq., Jenkins Fenstermaker, PLLC, James K. Toohey, Esq., Ross & Hardies, Chicago, Illinois, Attorneys for American Standard, Inc.

Stephen M. Schwartz, Esq., R. Scott Long, Esq., Hendrickson & Long, Charleston, West Virginia Daniel Markewich, Esq., Ellen Margolis, Esq., Mound, Cotton, Wollan & Greengrass, New York, New York, Attorneys for Viad Corp.

Leo G. Daly, Esq., Bethann R. Lloyd, Esq., Grogan, Graffam, McGinley & Lucchino, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Attorneys for Amicus Curiae Budd Co.

John Hedges, Esq., Teresa Lyons, Esq., Byrne & Hedges, Morgantown, West Virginia, Attorney for Amicus Curiae AFL-CIO.

J. Weldon Granger, Esq., Houston, Texas, John D. Roven, Esq., Roven, Kaplan & Wells, Houston, Texas, James O'Brien, Esq., Leslie Crosco, Esq., Hartley, O'Brien, Thompson & Hill, Wheeling, West Virginia, Willard J. Moody, Esq., Moody, Strople, Kloeppel, Basilone & Higginbotham, Inc., Portsmouth, Virginia, Richard J. Sherpe, Esq., Glasser & Glasser, P.L.C., Norfolk, Virginia, Attorneys for Amici Curiae International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers and National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees, Inc.


McGRAW, Justice:

I.

FACTS

These certified questions come to the Court from a mass litigation proceeding from Kanawha County in which several thousand current and former railroad employees allege that they have been injured by exposure to asbestos-containing products. The employees sued both the railroads and the manufacturers of various products used by the railroads. The defendant manufacturers moved for summary judgment and asserted that federal...

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