Ex Virginia Shipyard Worker Gets Mesothelioma Compensation

On September 6, 2008, a former shipyard worker won a $4.39 million jury verdict from an Illinois maker of asbestos-related parts that he asserted gave him a terminal form of cancer. The plaintiff, a former worker at Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., was awarded $4 million in compensatory damages and $390,000 ...