Former smoker’s award won’t be reduced in Md. asbestos case

BALTIMORE (Legal Newsline) – Maryland’s highest court has ruled that a trial court properly rejected a defendant’s request to have the jury apportion damages in an asbestos case involving a former smoker.

Judge Clayton Greene, Jr. delivered the opinion on July 21 in the Court of Appeals of Maryland with judges Lynne A. Battaglia and Irma S. Raker concurring in part and dissenting in part.