Court Opinion

ID: 9643147
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 20:20:45.539523+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:57.788418
License: Public Domain

EDELMAN, Justice,
concurring.
A further clarification of the Court’s opinion may be helpful to avoid misunderstanding. Importantly, the opinion does not reverse the directed verdict merely because appellant’s product was used somewhere at the plant sometime during the period Mr. Click worked there. Instead, Mr. Barron testified that: (1) he worked next to Mr. Click at the plant for many years; (2) Mr. Click installed asbestos containing pipe insulation at the plant during that time; (3) Mr. Barron saw boxes of appellant’s asbestos-containing pipe insulation products in the specific area where he and Mr. Click were working; and (4) Mr. Click worked with all of the pipe insulation materials at the plant. Based on these facts, there is a strong enough inference that Mr. Click actually worked with appellant’s products to overcome a directed verdict and submit the issue to a jury.