Washington State Federal Jury Awards Asbestos Widow $1.05M On Negligence Claim

Mealey's (April 10, 2018, 10:05 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A federal jury in Washington state on April 6 awarded a widow $1,056,000 in a retrial of a negligence claim against the manufacturer of asbestos-containing dryer felts.  In 2009, a different jury awarded her $10.2 million, but the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erased that verdict after it found that the judge erred by not holding a Daubert hearing (Geraldine Barabin v. Scapa Dryer Fabrics Inc., No. 07-1454, W.D. Wash., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54869)....