GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. v. ROGERS

No. 05-15-00001-CV.

538 S.W.3d 637 (2017)

The GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, Appellant v. Vicki Lynn ROGERS, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Carl Rogers, Natalie Rogers, and Courtney Dugat, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Supplemental Opinion Filed September 13, 2017.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Oliver Jr. , Paul Kerlin , Tiffany Bingham Briscoe , Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, 700 Louisiana Street, Suite 4100, David M. Gunn , Beck, Redden & Secrest, One Houston Center, 1221 Mckinney Street, Suite 4500, Erin Hilary Huber , Beck Redden LLP, 1221 McKinney Suite 4500, Houston TX 77010, for Appellant.

Christopher J. Panatier , Darren Patrick McDowell , Simon Greenstone, Panatier Bartlett, P.C., 3232 McKinney Ave Ste, 610, Jeffrey S. Levinger , Levinger, PC, 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 2500, Dallas TX 75201-2701, for Appellees.

Before Justices Lang, Brown, and Whitehill.


OPINION

Following Carl Rogers's death from mesothelioma, his wife Vicki Lynn Rogers and daughters Natalie Rogers and Courtney Dugat sued appellant, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Carl's long time employer. A jury found that asbestos fibers in the workplace were a proximate cause of Carl's mesothelioma...

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