Plaintiff Bonito brought this asbestos action based on her diagnosis of, and eventual passing from, mesothelioma.
Plaintiff alleged exposure from laundering her husband’s clothes from approximately 1966 to the1990s. Mr. Bonito worked at various jobs during that time.
There were two defendants who took the case to trial. Union Carbide and Graybar Electric Co. Inc. made motions to exclude the plaintiff’s experts, which were subsequently denied. Despite the adverse ruling on the motion, the case went to trial against Union Carbide.
After nine days of trial and nearly two days of deliberations, the jury found on Nov. 21 that Union Carbide’s products were not defectively designed and that company did not fail to warn about the potential hazards of asbestos.
According to sources, this was the first asbestos case to go to a jury in nearly 40 years.
Read the full decision here.
