Verdicts

ST. LOUIS, Missouri – A St. Louis jury has awarded significant damages to the widow of an electrician from Westfield, Wisconsin, who died of complications from mesothelioma, a deadly lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Longtime electrician Keith Urbach died in 2012, about six months after he was diagnosed…

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina – A South Carolina state court jury has awarded a sizable verdict to the family of a maintenance worker who died from mesothelioma after inhaling asbestos fibers in the 1970s at a Celanese Corp. (NYSE: CE) polyester fiber plant in Spartanburg. Dennis Seay, who died in 2014…

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – An Alabama federal judge has awarded a significant judgment to the family of a woman who died from the lung disease mesothelioma after inhaling asbestos fibers for decades while washing her husband’s work clothes. Mesothelioma is a rare cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. For 22 years,…

BUFFALO, New York – A New York jury has returned a substantial wrongful death verdict against John Crane Inc. after finding the Chicago-based manufacturer of asbestos gaskets and packing material responsible for exposing a U.S. Navy veteran to asbestos prior to his death from mesothelioma, an incurable asbestos-related cancer. The…

DALLAS – Attorneys from Dallas-based Simon Greenstone Panatier, PC, a nationally recognized trial law firm, won two of the largest verdicts in Texas last year, according to the publishers of VerdictSearch. The firm’s wins will be highlighted in Top Texas Verdicts & Settlements of 2014, which will be inserted in…