In the first asbestos-related jury verdict in the state in several years, a national trade association has been ordered to pay $2.4 million to the estate of a man who worked as a tile setter for parts of four decades and later died from asbestos exposure.

Hannibal “Scott” Saldibar, of New Haven, was diagnosed in February 2009 with mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. He died just 11 months after his diagnosis.

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