T.H.S. NORTHSTAR ASSOCIATES v. W.R. GRACE & CO.-CONN.

Civ. No. 3-87-676.

860 F.Supp. 640 (1994)

T.H.S. NORTHSTAR ASSOCIATES, Limited Partnership, a Minnesota Limited Partnership, Plaintiff, v. W.R. GRACE & CO.-CONN., a Connecticut Corporation, Successor in Interest to Western Mineral Products Corp. and Zonolite Co., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Third Division.

April 1, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Floyd Earl Siefferman, Jr., Saliterman & Siefferman, Minneapolis, MN, Philip J. Goodman, Simpson & Berry, Birmingham, MI, Kenneth B. McClain, Humphrey Farrington & McClain, Independence, MO, John M. Klamann, Payne & Jones, Overland, KS, for T.H.S. Northstar Associates.

G. Marc Whitehead, Hugh V. Plunkett, John Caldwell Childs, Popham Haik Schnobrich & Kaufman, Minneapolis, MN, Harold J. Engel, Popham Haik Schnobrich & Kaufman, for W.R. Grace and Co.

Thomas Victor Seifert, Marianne Eileen Durkin, Head Seifert & Vander Weide, Minneapolis, MN, for National Gypsum Co.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

RENNER, Senior District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

The above-entitled action came on for trial before the undersigned and a jury between October 26 and December 21, 1993. On December 17, the jury returned a verdict finding that defendant W.R. Grace ("Grace") failed to use reasonable care in designing Monokote 3, an asbestos-containing material used to fireproof the Northstar Center, and breached a duty to warn T.H.S...

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