$1.9 Million Awarded to Ex-Smoker Exposed to Asbestos

PHILADELPHIA - A jury in Philadelphia has awarded nearly $2 million to a man who claimed he developed lung cancer after being exposed to asbestos. Gillespie v. A.P. Green Industries, Inc., No. 99-303033 (Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Cty.).

Sources told HarrisMartin Publishing that the jury awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages to Gillespie and $400,000 to his wife for loss of consortium in the first phase of the bifurcated trial. The outcome of the second phase, the liability phase, was pending.

Defendants John Crane and Mobil Corp. were the only two defendants remaining at trial, according to sources. Gillespie developed …