Veredicto millonario en Filadelfia: 25.2 millones de dólares a favor de una víctima por amianto

The jury in the case of Baccus v. Crane Co., held and heard before Judge James Murray Lynn in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, recently awarded James Baccus Estate $25.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Mr. Baccus claimed to have been exposed to Asbestos while working for the Navy in Philadelphia, but also was injured in Kentucky, where he spent the remainder of his life. The defense attorneys requested the Kentucky law be applied in the hopes of more evenly distributing the liability for the injuries on defendants who had already settled, but the jury decided no liability against the defendants who settled and awarded significant punitive damages to the Plaintiff. Other plaintiffs and defendants in the suit settled for undisclosed amounts