Jury awards $322 million to worker in asbestos case 
In #2 of our Top Ten Jury Verdicts of 2011 countdown, a jury awarded Thomas Brown, Jr. $322 million against two companies that manufactured and distributed a product he handled at work for failing to warn of the dangers of asbestos particles Brown claimed he inhaled on the job.
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Jury awards $89.6 million to pipefitter with mesothelioma
A 12-person jury in Illinois awarded $89.6 million – $80 million of it in punitives – against four defendants in a suit brought by a former pipefitter suffering from mesothelioma.
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