ASBESTOS IN CALIFORNIA
California jury awards $3.4M to surviving family members of a plant worker who died of mesothelioma

In one of the most recent verdicts related to asbestos in California, a San Francisco jury found a Canadian company liable for exposing a factory worker to the asbestos materials that ultimately led to his fatal mesothelioma. The jury awarded his family $3.4 million.

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Asbestos in California. California has the highest rate of asbestos-related mortalities of any state in the country, according to an independent study of national death certificates. The urban centers around San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego are the worst in the state for deaths due to asbestos.

Furthermore, California has 12 counties on the study’s list of the Top 100 counties in the nation showing asbestos-related deaths – a dubious distinction matched only by Florida and New Jersey.

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ASBESTOS IN CALIFORNIA

August 20, 2009 – A San Francisco Superior Court jury last month awarded the family of a deceased millwright $3.4 million after finding a Canadian company liable for exposing the worker to asbestos in the contaminated plant where he worked.

The man worked at a Johns-Manville Transite plant from May 1968 to 1984, when it closed. In 2004, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma (a cancer related to occupational asbestos exposure), which eventually took his life.

The defendant, Advocate Mines of Newfoundland, Canada, responded that the company had stopped supplying asbestos to Johns-Manville 13 months before Worthley began working there, and denied liability. Advocate Mines supplied bulk asbestos to the Johns-Manville plant from December 1963 to April 1967.

The millwright worker was exposed to dust from raw asbestos fiber used to make Transite asbestos-cement pipe. One of his jobs was to clean and repair the manufacturing equipment, including the dust collection equipment.

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