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Exxon escapes $17.5M asbestos judgment 

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    • January 24, 2013

An asbestos defendant should have been permitted to introduce evidence that it had no duty to intervene to protect the plaintiff because of the safety programs implemented by the plaintiff’s employer, the Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a $17.5 million judgment.
The plaintiff worked at a shipyard from » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2013/01/24/exxon-escapes-17-5m-asbestos-judgment/

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