Calif. Court: Contractor Asbestos Knowledge Supports Verdict For Water Companies

(November 21, 2018, 1:29 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A jury was properly instructed that it could find two water companies liable for a man’s asbestos exposures only if it first concluded that the contractor could not have known about the dangers, and sufficient evidence suggests that it would have known about the dangers asbestos-containing pipe posed to workers, a California appeals court held Nov. 19 (Shirley Hubbard, et al. v. California Water Service Co., et al., No. A145804, Calif. App., 1st Dist., 2018 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 7787)....

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