Mealey's (August 11, 2022, 12:42 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A company challenging a $2,696,700 verdict said in an opening brief that precedent “unmistakably shows the way” forward and urged a California appeals court to close a strict liability loophole while telling it that there was insufficient evidence of exposure to asbestos in cement pipe or talc and that a properly informed jury would never have imposed 45% liability upon it....