Let Medical Talc Case Proceed Against 2nd Defendant, Special Master Says

(August 12, 2024, 2:18 PM EDT) -- WOBURN, Mass. — Expert William Longo’s testing contributing to existing evidence of asbestos in talc used in a medical procedure, criticisms of a defendant’s own testing methods and the fact that the potential for asbestos-tainted talc was known decades before a man’s 2014 talc pleurodesis support denying the defendant’s motion for summary judgment, a special master in Massachusetts said in an Aug. 10 recommendation....