A ruling on one expert witness has toppled a $10 million jury verdict from a monthlong asbestos exposure trial six years ago.
The trial court judge was wrong to allow the witness to testify because what he had to say was not meaningful and could only confuse the jury, Justice Keith Blackwell wrote for the Georgia Supreme Court in an opinion released Tuesday. And he said the Georgia Court of Appeals judges were wrong to affirm the verdict—which they did last year on a split vote.
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