New York Top Court Told Asbestos Causation Ruling Nixing $11M Verdict ‘Much Needed’

(February 26, 2018, 4:33 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A ruling requiring an asbestos plaintiff to introduce actual evidence that exposures from friction products could cause her decedent’s mesothelioma is a “much-needed course correction” in the litigation, an amicus curiae group told New York’s top court on Feb. 15 as briefing in the case wraps up (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, Mary Juni, etc. v. A.O. Smith Water Products Co., et al., No. APL-2017-00114, N.Y. App.)....