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In a significant victory for liability insurers and others, on Friday, August 12, 2011, United States District Court Judge Karon Owen Bowdre rejected the United States' motion to reconsider her September 30, 2010 order dismissing on statute of limitations grounds the Medicare recovery claims brought against the attorneys representing the Abernathy plaintiffs, the chemical companies sued in Abernathy as the alleged tortfeasor defendants and the chemical companies' liability insurance carriers
The Supreme Court of California has held that evidence of an oral settlement made in the course of mediation was inadmissible under California’s mediation confidentiality statutes
