VerdictSearch has a facinating top 100 of 2003 from which I extracted my top asbestos verdict of 2003: $250,000,000 in Whittington v. U.S. Steel settled by Randall A. Bono, The Simmons Firm, East Alton, Ill.; Michael Brickman, Richardson, Patrick, Westbrook & Brickman, Charleston, S.C.
Law.com has the scoop (4/10/2003).
The jury in Madison County, Ill., found that U.S. Steel Corp. failed to warn Roby Whittington, 70, of the risks it knew were associated with inhalation of asbestos fibers. The jury awarded $50 million in compensatory damages and $200 million in punitive damages to Whittington, who suffers from mesothelioma, an incurable and invariably fatal cancer solely caused by asbestos inhalation.Note that "all of the other defendants settled except for one trial winner." So the real number could be much larger.
The second largest case last year, also mentioned in the law.com article, was Croteau v. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Inc.. $47,136,325 was awarded in this case. The plantiff's attorney was Jerry Kristal, Weitz & Luxenberg, New York. In this case, Robert Croteau, 54, "alleged that his exposure to asbestos while employed at power plants owned and operated by Con Edison and Long Island Lighting Co. caused his mesothelioma." Weitz & Luxenberg have a short New York Times article on the case up on their site. In Brown v. Honeywell Corp. in 2002, Weitz & Luxenberg won $53.5 million for their client from the automotive brake manufacturer.
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