A New Jersey jury has awarded $3 million to a woman who claimed her husband, a potter, died after contracting mesothelioma from asbestos fibers inhaled while working with industrial talc, a material he used for glazes. The verdict is the first in the nation to deal with asbestos in industrial talc, the plaintiff's lawyer says. The jury is to return Nov. 28 to consider punitive damages against defendants R.T. Vanderbilt Inc., which mined the industrial talc, and Hammill & Gillespie Inc., its distributor.
November 20, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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A jury in Newark, N.J., has awarded $3 million to a woman who claimed her husband, a potter, died because he contracted a fatal disease from asbestos fibers inhaled while working with a material he used for glazes.
The verdict is the first in the nation dealing with asbestos in industrial talc, said Carmen St. George, a lawyer for Bonnie L. Parker, widow of Peter Stanley Hirsch.
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