Over 50,000 cases initially filed by merchant marines who were exposed to asbestos have sifted down to about 2,000 since a federal judge dismissed a chunk of the dwindling caseload this week.
U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, who is handing the multidistrict litigation, dismissed about 1,600 cases from the maritime docket because the seamen could demonstrate only that they had suffered scarring of tissue around their lungs, which is not an asbestos-related injury.
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