Combined Damages Verdicts of $12.1 Million Force Settlement in Bifurcated Asbestos Trial

PHILADELPHIA - Parties in two Pennsylvania asbestos trials settled after a jury awarded the estates of two paper company employees verdicts totaling more than $12 million in the damages phase of a reverse-bifurcated trial. Guila Andrews, executrix of the estate of Luke Andrews v. ACandS, et al., No. July 2001-482 (Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Cty.) and Paula Box, executrix of the estate of Larry Box v. ACandS, et al., No. Aug. 2001-3477 (Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Cty.).

On Oct. 20, jurors in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas awarded $6.6 million and $5.5 million to the estates of Larry …