Jury Awards $7.5 Million at End of Separate Trial on Damages

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- A New Jersey jury has awarded $7.5 million at the conclusion of a take-home exposure case in which the jury only deliberated on the issue of damages. Anderson v. ExxonMobil Corp., No. MID-L-2356-03(AS) (N.J. Super. Ct., Middlesex Cty.).

The May 28 verdict from the Middlesex County (N.J.) Superior Court jury was a follow-up to a separate jury's finding late last year that ExxonMobil was liable for plaintiff Bonnie Anderson's mesothelioma.

Judge Ann McCormick presided over both trials. The more recent trial began on May 21.

Sources told HarrisMartin that in November 2007, a separate jury concluded …