A Los Angeles jury returned a defense verdict last week in a multimillion-dollar asbestos case against tobacco company Lorillard, a maker of cigarettes equipped with asbestos filters in the 1950s, and three other defendants. Defense lawyer David Thorne said that the jury seemed particularly swayed by an expert witness -- an emeritus public health professor at Harvard who is in his 90s and testified by videotape -- who told the jury how widely asbestos was used in the 1950s.
January 25, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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A Los Angeles jury returned a defense verdict Jan 19 in a multimillion-dollar asbestos case against tobacco company Lorillard, a maker of cigarettes equipped with asbestos filters in the 1950s, and three other defendants.
In his closing argument, plaintiffs attorney Gary Paul, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Waters & Kraus, had suggested the jury award around $15 million in economic and non-economic damages.
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