In re Tire Workers Asbestos Litigation

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WEINER, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

In 1988, the law firm of Allen L. Rothenberg filed a series of Multiple Plaintiff Asbestos Complaints on behalf of former tire workers employed at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Plant located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. The parties subsequently scheduled 28 depositions for plaintiffs in the first two Multiple Plaintiff Complaints. In answers to defense Master Interrogatories Set I, all the tire worker plaintiffs stated that they first became aware that asbestosis was a compensable illness during a tire worker union meeting at the…