Mulligan v. Keene Corp.

Appellant, Allied Signal, Inc. (Signal), appeals from an order of the circuit court of Cook County which created an “Asbestos Deferred Registry” (registry).

According to the 16-page order dated March 26, 1991, the registry is a court-supervised repository wherein certain asbestos-related personal injury claims filed in Cook County must be placed and kept on a deferred or inactive docket until such time, if ever, that the claimant develops a prescribed degree of impairment or disability arising from his contact with asbestos. Although the order affects several hundred plaintiffs and numerous…