Asbestos Litigation • Wrongful Death • Time-Barred • Failure to Amend

Horst v. Union Carbide Corp., PICS Case No. 17-1384 (C.P. Lackawanna June 30, 2017) Nealon, J. (15 pages).

In this asbestos litigation, plaintiffs’ wrongful death claim was time-barred because they failed to amend the complaint to include such a claim within two years of the date on which one of the plaintiffs was diagnosed with mesothelioma.