SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian tribunal judge on Oct. 8 found that a former asbestos products manufacturer was liable under a partnership agreement with another company for the sale and manufacturing of asbestos products to pay only a portion of a $270,000 verdict awarded to a man who developed mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos brought home on his father's work clothes ([Re Jones-Mashman] Amaca Pty Ltd v. CSR Ltd, [No. 2] [2009], NSWDDT, 24, New South Wales DDT). From Mealey's International Asbestos Liability Report

LONDON - An England and Wales court on Nov. 6 allowed an appeal of a ruling that denied compensation for the daughter of a former factory worker who died of mesothelioma and found that she failed to prove that her mother's exposure to asbestos at work more than doubled her risk of developing the disease when combined with environmental exposures, finding that the trial judge erred in his quantitative assessment of the exposure (Karen Sienkiewicz [administratix of the Estate of Enid Costello] v. Greif [UK] Ltd., No. [2009] EWCA Civ. 1159, England and Wales App.). From Mealey's International Asbestos Liability Report