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October 18, 1995.
On Motion for Reconsideration December 1, 1995.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Roger W. Titus (Patrick L. Clancy, Paula T. Laboy, Venable, Baetjer and Howard, LLP, Rockville, Gerry Hoban Tostanoski, Scott Patrick Burns, Tydings & Rosenberg, Baltimore, William D. Harvard, Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Bryant, P.A., Athens, GA; R. Cornelius Danaher, Frank H. Santoro, Danaher, Tedford, Lagnese & Neal, P.C.; [Attorneys for Pittsburg Corning Corporation]; Louis G. Close, Jr., Warren N. Weaver, Fenton L. Martin, Gardner M. Duvall, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP, Baltimore [Attorneys for Porter Hayden Company]), all on brief.
B. Ford Davis (Whiteford, Taylor & Preston L.L.P., Baltimore, all on brief), William D. Harvard, Warren N. Weaver, James D. Miller, for appellants/cross-appellees.
Patricia J. Kasputys (Peter G. Angelos, Kenneth D. Pack, Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, Towson, Ronald L. Motley, Joseph F. Rice, Susan Nial, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, SC; John J. McConnell, Jr., Robert J. McConnell, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Providence, RI, all on brief), John J. McConnell, Jr., David L. Palmer, Thomas P. Kelly, Kenneth D. Pack, for appellees/cross-appellants.
F. Ford Loker, Church & Houff, P.A., amicus curiae.
Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
RODOWSKY, Judge.
In this opinion we address the appeals and cross appeals in the consolidated actions known to the Maryland asbestos litigation industry as Abate I. With one exception we shall affirm the judgments for compensatory damages and, for insufficient evidence, reverse the judgments for punitive damages.
Abate I is the first trial after the consolidation in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of 8,555 actions involving claims for personal...
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