Plaintiffs Want SV40 Cases Kept on Asbestos Docket

SAN FRANCISCO - Cases alleging injury as a result of exposure to asbestos and simian virus 40 (SV40) should be handled as any other of the hundreds of asbestos claims pending in San Francisco Superior Court, according to a motion filed recently by plaintiffs. Nelson v. ACandS, Inc., et al., No. 312715 (Calif. Super. Ct., San Francisco Cty.).

In their opposition to motions filed by Pfizer, Inc., Warner-Lambert, Wyeth and Merck & Co., plaintiffs contend that the defendants' recent move to assign a single judge to oversee asbestos cases where SV40 infection resulting from exposure to contaminated polio vaccine is …