Couple Defends Experts, Punitive Damages In $117M Asbestos-Talc Verdict

(May 15, 2018, 10:23 AM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — Experts tested period-specific bottles of talc free from evidence of outside contamination, further confirming the presence of asbestos about which defendants knew, meeting the causation standard regardless of what term is used to describe the mineral’s form, a couple tells a New Jersey court in a trio of May 7 briefs supporting their $117 million verdict (Stephen Lanzo, et al. v. Cyprus Amex Minerals Co., et al., No. MID-L-00738516, N.J. Super., Middlesex Co.)....