Verdicts & Settlements

Cook County Jury awards the family of a former engineer who was exposed to asbestos dust while working over 40 years as a laborer, engineer, and salesperson in the oil refining and industrial machinery fields. *Worthington & Caron and the Frost Law Firm were co-counsel. August 30, 2023, Cook County, Illinois

Los Angeles Jury Awards $26.6 Million to 62 Year-Old Former Drywaller Exposed to Dust on Residential and Commercial Jobsites in Southern California. *Worthington & Caron and Simon Greenstone Panatier Bartlett, P.C. were co-counsel. March, 2013, Los Angeles County, California.

For 67 year-old government employee who was diagnosed with pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma after exposure to talcum powder and body and shave talc products in California. *Worthington & Caron and Simon, Greenstone, Panatier & Bartlett, LLP were co-counsel. October 2016, Los Angeles County, California.

Jury Finds Colgate-Palmolive Talcum Powder Causes Mesothelioma, Awards $13 Million . A jury in Los Angeles County (Chatsworth) yesterday on April 28, 2015 unanimously found that Colgate-Palmolive’s Cashmere Bouquet talcum powder, which they sold from the 1930s to 1995, caused our client Judith Winkel’s malignant pleural mesothelioma.

Fresno Jury Awards $10,900,000 to the family of a former plumber and race car enthusiast who was diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma in 2012 at the age of 58. The gentleman was exposed to asbestos dust from a host of automotive products while working on cars, race cars, trucks and heavy equipment from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. *Worthington & Caron and Simon Greenstone Panatier Bartlett, P.C. were co-counsel. May 28, 2014. Fresno, California.