Four Defendants Get Verdicts in Indirect Asbestos Exposure Case

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Texas jury has refused to award damages to a plaintiff who claimed that he developed peritoneal mesothelioma as a result of his exposure to asbestos that his father carried home on his work clothes. Keefe v. American Standard, Inc., et al., No. 96-195140-02 (Texas Dist. Ct., Tarrant Cty.).

The Tarrant County District Court jury returned the verdict Feb. 2 in favor of four defendants, who maintained that dust from their products did not cause plaintiff Charles Keefe's mesothelioma. Keefe and his wife sued numerous companies in Texas, alleging that although never directly exposed to fibers …