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"Former Argosy Commander Awarded $1.9 Actor for Illness"
April 4, 2003
CA San Francisco board has awarded a above argosy artisan $1.9 actor for his asbestos accompanying injuries consistent from years of work-related acknowledgment to the baleful fibers. Charlton Clemmer and his wife Kay claimed in their accusation that above asbestos manufacturers and distributors John Crane Inc. and Thorpe Insulation Company were anon amenable for their abnormal artefact and abortion to acquaint humans about the baleful risks associated with asbestos.
Clemmer, who was alive in the Navy from 1952 to 1972, was in allegation of accessories aliment and adjustment on several destroyers and the aircraft carrier USS YORKTOWN, advertisement him to alarming levels of asbestos inhalation. Following these duties, Clemmer aswell served as a abyssal artisan and a arch petty officer, area he was aswell consistently subjected to abounding asbestos products.
In 2004, Charlton Clemmer was diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer, a blight anon activated with boundless and abiding asbestos exposure.
During the trial, the plaintiff argued that asbestos dangers accept been accepted back the 1920s and its cancer-causing furnishings were accepted as aboriginal as the 1950s.
I ambition that companies whose articles accept acquired austere abrasion would yield agenda and responsibly abode the animal assessment afterwards time and afresh putting admirable plaintiffs like the Clemmers through a trial, commented advocate Gilbert Purcell, who is apery the Clemmer family. John Crane, Inc. refuses to achieve any case and has taken this attitude for over 20 years admitting adjudication afterwards adjudication adjoin them. Its their rightbut its still unfortunate, he added.
The board awarded $550,000 for bread-and-butter damages, $1.1 actor for non-economic damages, and $250,000 for accident of bunch to the Clemmer family.
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