Lucifer Furnaces of Warrington, Pa. currently defends three asbestos suits in circuit court and has obtained 23 dismissals in seven years.
The name jumps out from a mass of Madison County defendants that lawyers Mark Behrens and Mary Margaret Gay estimated at 900 in an April 29 report on litigation reform.
Their report asserts that plaintiffs started suing smaller businesses after asbestos producers declared bankruptcy and created trusts to pay claims.
Lucifer Furnaces fits the low profile.
It doesn’t file anything with the Securities Exchange Commission, and no one has sued it in its own county.
An employee sued Lucifer at U.S. district court in Philadelphia in 2018, in a handicap accommodation dispute, and settled in six months.