Personal Injury & Torts
Aug. 18, 2012
Ford Motor Co. wins LA asbestos trial
A woman whose husband handled asbestos as a car mechanic failed to convince a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury that the service station owner and a major car manufacturer contributed to her cancer decades later.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - A woman whose husband handled asbestos as a car mechanic has failed to convince a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury that the service station owner and a major car manufacturer contributed to her cancer decades later.
In a verdict reached Tuesday after three weeks of trial and a day and a half of deliberation, jurors found Marline Petitpas could not hold Ford Motor Co. and Exxon Mobi...
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