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Va. Jury Awards Wife $5.5 Million for Husband's Asbestos Death
East News • April 16, 2007
he widow of a former shipyard worker who died from exposure to asbestos while building Navy aircraft carriers was awarded $5.55 million by a Circuit Court jury in Virginia.
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| RE: Asbestos Death Award seems high | Mike | Sep 11, 2007, 11:31 am |
| Asbestos Death Award seems high | Nancy | Apr 17, 2007, 11:21 am |
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Subject: RE: Asbestos Death Award seems high
the deasease and the dehabilitating and painful effects in the later stages, I find the positions by the corporate entities responsible for creating the products and environments for which they were well aware of being hazardous and chose to disregard to generate exhorbent levels of revenue the most relevant issue in terms of excessive awards. A 5 to 9 Mil. award is a drop in the bucket in relation to the Billions in revenues realized by the entities proven to have simply threw the worker to the wolves in an order to maximize their profits.