Appeals Court Reverses Summary Judgment Regarding Adhesive Product ID

SAN FRANCISCO - Whether a company's asbestos-containing adhesives were present at an Arizona aerospace machine shop and were responsible for a worker's mesothelioma is a question for the jury, even where the plaintiff and three of his co-workers were unable to identify the product as being on the premises, a California appeals court has ruled. Wright v. Dexter Corp., No. A100716 (Calif. Ct. App., First Dist.).

Reversing an award of summary judgment to the Dexter Corporation, the California Court of Appeal said July 28 that the lack of product identification proffered by plaintiff John Wright was sufficiently supplemented with testimony …