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$2.4M Welding Rod Verdict Vacated So Jury Can Weigh Employer’s Fault
Posted on 27 Aug 2010 by Bill G Lowe

NEW ORLEANS - (Mealey's) A jury in a welding rod multidistrict litigation bellwether case should have been permitted to allocate fault to the plaintiff's shipbuilder employer, a panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Aug. 26 in... Read More

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