MATTER OF NY CITY ASBESTOS LITIG.


188 A.D.2d 214 (1993)

In the Matter of New York City Asbestos Litigation (Brooklyn Naval Shipyard Cases)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

February 9, 1993


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Phillips of counsel (Diane Paolicelli, Robert I. Komitor, Alani Golanski, Moshe Maimon and Jerry Kristal with him on the brief), Levy Phillips & Konigsberg and Greitzer & Locks for plaintiffs-appellants.

Robert H. Riley of counsel (Schiff Hardin & Waite, attorneys), for Owens-Illinois, Inc., defendant-appellant-respondent.

Andrew T. Berry of counsel (McCarter & English, attorneys), for Keene Corporation, and Richard P. O'Leary of counsel, with him on the brief (Gordon & Silber, attorneys), for Manville Corporation Asbestos Disease Compensation Fund, defendants-appellants-respondents.

SULLIVAN, J. P., MILONAS and KUPFERMAN, JJ., concur.


RUBIN, J.

This action involves approximately 600 cases arising out of exposure to asbestos at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The asbestos was contained in products manufactured and distributed by some 40 named defendants. Trial was conducted utilizing the reverse bifurcation format and proceeded first on the question of damages, resulting in a jury verdict in excess of $73,000,000. A determination was then made as...

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