Following a two and a half week trial, a Sebring, Florida jury took about an hour and a half to rule for the defense in an asbestos case involving a man who died of mesothelioma in 2009, more than 40 years after he was purportedly exposed to asbestos in a cement irrigation pipe.
Lead defense attorney Albert Parnell said the plaintiffs had offered to settle for $4.5 million prior to trial, and had increased that offer as the trial went on.
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