After a four-week trial, a Los Angeles jury returned a defense verdict in the case of a man who said his exposure to asbestos included in Union Carbide products had caused his mesothelioma.
Scott Masterson, a partner in Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith’s Atlanta office who led the defense, said this case was one of the most unusual of the many asbestos trials he’s tried—in large part because he had to conduct it on a knee scooter, his leg encased in a large black boot as the result of a pre-Christmas tumble on a New York sidewalk that required surgery.
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