Georgia Pacific Loses $7K Asbestos Lawsuit in San Francisco. Joint compound said to cause disease.

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A San Francisco jury has ordered asbestos manufacturer Georgia Pacific to pay more than $7 million in damages for exposing a woman to the fibers that caused her mesothelioma while she was working in a home-remodeling business with her husband, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on March 13, 2008.

The jury assigned 30 percent of the responsibility to Georgia Pacific Corp., the only defendant in the trial. According to the article, the company probably would be ordered to pay a slightly higher proportion of the award, $7.1 million.

The woman and her husband ran a part-time remodeling business to make ends meet. Their lawyer reportedly said the products they used included an asbestos compound made by Georgia Pacific to fill cracks in sheetrock.

The lawsuit claimed that the company continued making the compound long after learning that asbestos could cause cancer and competitors found substitutes, and stopped only after the federal government outlawed asbestos products in 1977.

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