WASHINGTON–In a case with potentially broad implications, insurance trade groups have joined in contesting the latest legal move by a group of workers seeking money for medical monitoring against potential injury from beryllium metal dust.
The insurers' organizations have joined with business groups for a friend-of-the-court brief arguing there is no legal precedent for what the plaintiffs want. Their filing was submitted Monday at Mississippi Supreme Court, where the case now rests following a federal judge's dismissal of the workers suit.
Titled Paz vs. Brush Engineered Materials Inc., et al, the case was brought as a class action on behalf of workers for Cleveland-based BEMI who said they were exposed to beryllium while doing work for the company at Mississippi's John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis, Miss., and Boeing's Canoga Park, Calif. facility.
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