Asbestos Defendant Conceded Mesothelioma Diagnosis, Couple Says

( May 28, 2025, 10:32 AM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — A defendant’s counsel’s comments about genetics and causation of mesothelioma and kidney cancer during trial constitute a judicial admission that a man suffers from the disease and should be treated by the court as such, a couple prosecuting an asbestos case tells a judge in California in a May 27 trial brief....