Mealey's (December 19, 2017, 11:19 AM EST) -- CHARLOTTE, N.C. — How a judge instructed the jury made possible a verdict finding that automobile product defendants’ negligence was a proximate cause of a man’s mesothelioma and that a third party’s negligence was an intervening cause, a divided Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Dec. 14 (Erik Ross Phillips, et al. v. Pneumo Abex LLC, et al., No. 16-1508, 4th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 25252)....