(April 12, 2018, 3:20 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A panel of the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 5 reversed a $13 million punitive damages ruling in a chemical exposure case and held that a new damages trial was appropriate because a lower court erroneously concluded that judicial estoppel applied based on an inconsistent position taken by the defendants in a separate case related to successor-in-interest liability (Jodelle L. Kirk v. Schaeffler Group USA Inc., et al., No. 16-3417, 8th Cir.; 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 9012)....