Md. Court Says Circumstantial Evidence Enough to Prove Significant Exposure

BALTIMORE -- A Maryland appellate court has affirmed a $1.7 million asbestos verdict, acknowledging that there was a lack of direct evidence linking the plaintiff to the defendant's product, there was "more than enough" circumstantial evidence linking the two. Scapa Inc., et al. v. Saville, No. 540 September Term, 2008 (Md. Ct. Special App.).

In the Dec. 29 opinion, the Special Court of Appeals said that even though the plaintiff spent most of his time in a vicinity where Scapa Dryer Felts' products admittedly weren't, "that still left up to half of his time divided among the remaining felts, one …