Rose Griggs was awarded over $27 million by an Oakland jury in damages due to mesothelioma .
Rose Griggs, aged 82, used to shake out and wash her husband’s work clothes. He worked as an insulator handing insulation materials from 1950 to 1958.
During the trial it was revealed that the company who made the materials, Owens Illinois, knew from as early as the 1930s, that asbestos exposure could cause death and that test results on the material they used, called Kaylo, showed that exposure to the asbestos in the product could cause fatal diseases.
However Owens Illinois advertised Kaylo as ‘non-toxic’ and did not state that the product contained asbestos nor were there any warning on the boxes.
The jury found that Owens Illinois had not only manufactured a defective product but had failed to adequately warn and disclose information about Kaylo related health hazards. They awarded Rose and her husband a total of $27,342,500 for pain and suffering, punitive and economic damages.
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