Magistrate Denies Insurer’s Bids To Compel Discovery In Asbestos Coverage Dispute

( January 27, 2025, 12:06 PM EST) -- BUFFALO, N.Y. — A federal magistrate judge in a single order denied an insurer’s motions to compel discovery in four similar suits against insurers filed by the estates of people who died purportedly from asbestos exposure, seeking payment of judgments entered against an asbestos mine, finding that though discovery of negotiations resulting in a funding agreement is related to the agreement’s impact, the disclosure of the agreement “is sufficient.”...

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