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Compensation of former 25 million dollars to employee of Shipbuilding Newport News hit from mesotelioma
Exxon oil tanker had worked on 17 oil tankers in repair of the company
April 4, 2011
The Newport News Circuit Court has recognized an indemnification of 12 million dollars let alone damages for 12,5 million dollars and the reimbursement of about 500 thousand dollars of medical expenses to former employee of the ship yard a Newport News Shipbuilding, the seventy - two - year - old Rubert Minton, that it is hit by mesotelioma, a correlated tumor form to the exposure to the asbestos.
The court - the American law firm Cooney and Conway, specialized in causes has announced on the asbestos - has considered the oil society responsible Exxon Mobil Corporation of the damages to the health of Minton, than between 1966 and 1977 had worked as supervisor of the activities of repair of the commercial ships and that in the seven years precedence it took care of the new constructions realized from the ship yard. In such Minton period Exxon oil tanker had worked on 17 oil tankers of the company in repair.
The law firm has specified that the total compensation of 25 million dollars will be diminished automatically to about 17,5 million dollars because the law establishes a limit of five million dollars to the amount of the damages that can be fixed the jury.
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