(April 9, 2018, 2:18 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Facts introduced at trial have made it “abundantly clear” that newly permitted punitive damages are warranted, a woman told a New York justice presiding over her asbestos trial on March 31, sources told Mealey Publications. But in an April 5 trial memorandum, one of the defendants says the evidence does not support the conclusion that the decedent encountered its products, let alone that punitive damages are warranted, sources told Mealey Publications (In re: New York City Asbestos Litigation, Mary Murphy-Clagett v. A.O. Smith Water Products, et al., No. 190311/15, Kelly O’Connor v. A.O. Smith, et al., No. 190147/15, N.Y. Sup., New York Co.)....