California Defendant Seeks Separate Trials in Case Involving AML and CLL

LOS ANGELES -- A defendant has asked a California trial court to order separate trials in a chemical case involving two plaintiffs who worked at the same bathtub installer, claiming that their place of employment is the end of the similarity between the claims. Franco, et al. v. Berry Plastics Corp., et al., No. BC405841 (Calif. Super. Ct., Los Angeles Cty.).

In the Nov. 12 motion filed in the California Superior Court for Los Angeles County, the defendant, a re-packager of products, says that evidence relating to causation in the case differs so much that allowing the claims to proceed …