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A Broward County Florida jury awarded $20,000,000 to the family of a mesothelioma victim who was exposed to asbestos over the course of a four-month remodeling job in his home that used asbestos containing joint compound. The jury found Union Carbide, the supplier of the asbestos that went into the joint compound 80% responsible.
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Congratulations to attorneys, Nate Finch and James Ledlie of Motley Rice, along with Gary Kendall and Kyle McNew of Michie Hamlett. They worked tirelessly on behalf of the family of James “Doug” Lokey, to obtain a $282,685 verdict in a liability case involving asbestos exposure. According to the legal team, this recent mesothelioma verdict was achieved along with the legal assistance of Will Harty of Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamonstein, L.C. who assisted with jurisdiction.
A liability verdict was issued late yesterday in Albemarle County, Virginia, against manufacturers Ford and Honeywell after jurors found that both companies exposed a former state trooper to asbestos which led him to contract the deadly lung disease mesothelioma at the age of 84.
Plaintiffs in this case were the family of James “Doug” Lokey, a former state trooper who died in 2007 from mesothelioma. Mr. Lokey was exposed to asbestos from brakes in the 1966-74 time frame as a result of going into state inspection stations and watching mechanics do blowout on Ford, GM and Chrysler vehicles. He also worked at the Norfolk Naval shipyard during World War II.
In the verdict, the six-member jury found that both Ford and Honeywell were negligent for failing to warn Mr. Lokey about the dangers of exposure to asbestos while at work. According to the legal team who represented Mr. Lokey, “ there were no settlement offers by Ford or Honeywell at any time.” Both companies held strong to deny their liability.
In a recent mesothelioma trial in San Francisco, California lawyers Sean Worsey and Lisa Espada, of the law firm of Levin Simes Kaiser & Gornick LLP obtained an $830,000 mesothelioma verdict on behalf of their client, an 85-year-old Oakland, California resident, exposed to asbestos after pulling his lunch truck into the Highland Stucco manufacturing facility twice daily from 1971-1972 to cater to company employees. I would like to congratulate them for their hard work fighting on behalf of mesothelioma victims and their families.
I would like to extend my congratulations to my close personal friends, Bobby Hatten, Hugh McCormick and Will Harty of Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamonstein for their $25 million verdict against Exxon Mobil Corporation on behalf of former shipyard worker, Rubert “Bert” Minton, 72, who was diagnosed with mesothelioma after years of working for the oil giant, as a repair supervisor on commercial vessels at Newport News Shipbuilding between 1966 and 1977. Minton had previously worked there for seven years as a ship fitter in new construction, and regularly worked at the shipyard on Exxon commercial oil tankers that were then being repaired. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma that doctors said he got from breathing billions of asbestos fibers while at the yard.
In a recent article published by The Baltimore Sun, Bobby Hatten, Minton’s lead attorney, was quoted as saying, ‘the jury awarded Minton $12 million in compensatory damages, $12.5 million in punitive damages, and $430,961 in medical expenses, plus interest. That brings the total verdict to about $25 million.”
The article goes on to state, “Exxon got a good, old-fashioned horse whipping is what it is,” said Hatten, who was at Al Fresco’s restaurant Thursday afternoon celebrating with about 35 staffers and attorneys from his law firm, Patten, Wornom, Hatten and Diamonstein.”
“But the $25 million verdict will be automatically reduced to about $17.5 million, Hatten said. That’s because although the jury awarded $12.5 million in punitive damages, it was legally limited to the $5 million that Hatten had requested for that portion of the verdict.”
“They awarded two-and-a-half times what I asked for,” Hatten said, saying he had not previously seen punitive damages of more than $100,000 in an asbestos case. “That shows how upset they were at Exxon.”
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Congratulations to Bloomington, Illinois attorneys James Wylder, Lisa Corwin, and Andrew Kelly for their verdicts totaling nearly $90 million and their work on behalf of contracted pipe fitter, Charles Gillenwater, 59, against four companies, Honeywell, Abex, Owens-Illinois, and John Crane. A McLean County jury awarded $90 million to Mr. Gillenwater against the four companies accused of exposing him to asbestos while working as a pipe fitter in the 1970s at several work sites, including Illinois State University, Bridgestone-Firestone and The Eureka Co., according to his lawyers, James Wylder and Andrew Kelly with Wylder Corwin Kelly of Bloomington.
The jury awarded compensatory damages of $9.6 million against defendants Honeywell International Inc., Pneumo Abex, Owens-Illinois Inc. and John Crane Inc. Punitive damages of $20 million were found against Honeywell, Peneumo Abex and $40 million against Owens-Illinois.
After a five week trial, the jury found that Honeywell, Pneumo Abex and Owens-Illinois suppressed or conspired with others to suppress information about the hazards of asbestos, including an agreement not to warn employees and customers about the dangers of the substance.
On March 7, 2011 A San Francisco jury awarded the plaintiff $1.37 million in a mesothelioma case. The exposure came from Kent Micronite Filter which at one time contained asbestos. The defendants in the case were Lorillard Tobacco Co. and Hollingworth & Vose. Congratulations to the trial team of Bill Levin, Laurel Simes and Tim Pearce for a hard fought victory on behalf of their living mesothelioma client against an army of defense lawyers over a seven week trial.
A California Jury awarded a plaintiff diagnosed with mesothelioma $8,253,579. The case was tried against the defendant against John Crane who was found 70% responsible. The jury also found that John Crane acted with malice and awarded the plaintiff an additional 14.5 million in punitive damages.
Congratulations to my friends Jay Stuemke and Rob Green who represented the plaintiff.
The day before Thanksgiving a Baltimore jury returned a verdict of $2.4 million in a mesothelioma case against Union Carbide. The plaintiff in the case worked for national gypsum and was exposed to asbestos fiber manufactured and sold by Union Carbide. This was extremely difficult case for the plaintiff and a well-deserved victory. Congratulations to my friends at the law office of Peter Angelos who represented the plaintiff.
A Los Angeles jury awarded Stanley & Janelle Bjerke, a $2.1 million dollar verdict. Mr. Bjerke, who is 77 years old, has pleural mesothelioma. During the 1950s through 1990s, he worked as a machinist and planner at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. JOHN CRANE was one of the manufacturers of packing material used by Mr. Bjerke during these years. The jury agreed that JOHN CRANE was liable for its failure to warn.
Today a Miami jury handed Union Carbide a major loss in a mesothelioma asbestos case. Union Carbide is a supplier of asbestos that is incorporated into other products like Spackle or joint compound. In this case, the jury assessed Union Carbide with 46%of the verdict. The other defendants in the case settled before trial. Congratulations to our friend Juan Bauta of The Ferraro Law Firm who did such a great job representing the family.
