Appeals Court Rejects Subpoena, Instruction Challenges To N.Y. Asbestos Verdict

(May 14, 2024, 3:05 PM EDT) -- BUFFALO, N.Y. — A trial court did not err in quashing a subpoena seeking corporate testimony about events 50 years prior and for which there appeared to be no such witness or in failing to instruct the jury on an employer’s potential role as an intervening cause of a man’s mesothelioma, a New York appeals court said in affirming a $2 million verdict....