ASBESTOS LITIGATION: Court OKs Partial Dismissal in Watts Action

The Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, allowed defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Count IV of Plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint, in the case styled Watts Water Technologies, Inc. & Watts Regulator Company v. Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company & others (Travelers Indemnity Company,…

ASBESTOS LITIGATION: Insurers Seek to Overturn New Exposure Law

Insurance firms, on May 28, 2009, went to the Court of Session in Edinburgh in a bid to overturn a new law affecting victims of negligent exposure to asbestos, The Herald reports.

Some leading insurance firms are against giving victims of…