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ACandS INC. v. ASNER

No. 92, Sept. Term 1995.

686 A.2d 250 (1996)

344 Md. 155

ACandS, INC. et al. v. Ida Sara Masket ASNER et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Opinion Denying Reconsideration December 6, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

B. Ford Davis (Dwight W. Stone, II, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P., on brief), Baltimore, for ACandS.

Dale B. Garbutt (Dana C. Petersen, Padraic McSherry Morton, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, L.L.P., on brief), Baltimore, for Porter Hayden Company.

Edward J. Lilly, Gary J. Ignatowski, and Ronald E. Richardson (Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Hugh F. Young, Jr., Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., Reston, VA (Joel A. Dewey and H. Bruce Dorsey, Piper & Marbury, L.L.P., Baltimore, of counsel), for The Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc., amicus curiae.

C. William Michaels, Baltimore, for MD Trial Lawyers Assoc., amicus curiae.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

Presented here are product liability claims arising out of the deaths of three individuals from mesothelioma, as a result of inhaling asbestos fibers. A consolidated trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City resulted in jury verdicts against the petitioners based in legal theory on strict liability and negligence and based factually on failure to warn. The jury awarded punitive damages in addition to...

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