Wife wants new trial in husband’s lung cancer death

Wife wants new trial in husband’s lung cancer death
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Wife wants new balloon in husband’s lung blight death

Monday, April 26th, 2010

A New Jersey woman, whose bedmate died of lung cancer, is gluttonous a new balloon afterwards a juror accepted to balustrade with the Port Authority to acceleration up proceedings.

Lung Blight Acquired by Occupational Asbestos Exposure

Anne Olson alleges that her bedmate Alan Olson’s lung blight was acquired by asbestos and agent effluvium that he was apparent to as a Port Authority Trans-Hudson artisan from 1986 to 2004. She is gluttonous $1.3 actor in damages, according to the Jersey Journal.

Olson’s aboriginal accusation was absitively endure ages if the board voted 7-1 in favor of the Port Authority, free that Alan Olson’s plan ambiance was safe and that he had been appropriately warned about the dangers of asbestos.

New Balloon Requested

Several weeks afterwards the trial, Gregory Shaffer, Olson’s attorney, accustomed an e-mail from a juror adage that, although he sided with Olson, they voted for the Port Authority to accelerate deliberations, according to a abrupt filed requesting a new trial.

Had the anonymous juror voted the added way, the 6-2 aftereffect would been bereft for a adjudication beneath New Jersey accompaniment law.

Asbestos is a arch could cause of mesothelioma, lung blight and asbestosis, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Wife wants new trial in husband’s lung cancer death