As previously reported in the Asbestos Case Tracker here, in June 2022 a jury awarded plaintiff Munir Seen $15 million, allocating 70 percent of the fault to joint compound manufacturer Kaiser Gypsum.

Dennis Kavanaugh, a 58-year-old carpenter, claimed that asbestos was contained in Georgia Pacific Ready-Mix Joint Compound that was used on job sites at which he worked in the early-to-mid-1970s.

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Engineers noted that the joint compound covers approximately 20 percent of the actual wall surface and is located at the taped seams and at screw heads. While there has been some minor alteration ...

The dangers of asbestos exposure were widely known in industry circles fordecades before the plaintiff's exposure to Georgia-Pacific's joint compound inthe 1970s. Even so, said Bautista, "Georgia ...

Grimaldi says a 1992 study by the Smithsonian determined that a joint compound used to seal wall seams contained asbestos. However, Grimaldi was told that in the following years, the information ...

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