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The Indiana Gazette reported March 15 an Indiana County, Penn., jury awarded $226,000 to the family of George Baroni. A resident of the Homer City area, Baroni worked for Fisher Scientific plant from 1959-1994. The jury determined he had been exposed to asbestos while on the job. He developed mesothelioma and died in 2005 at age 73.

Baroni’s case, filed on his behalf by his family, was the first of several lawsuits pending by former Fisher Scientific workers or their estates to be decided by a jury. Other cased settled prior to trial.

The Baroni lawsuit was filed against the companies that provided Fisher with products that contained asbestos, according to the Gazette story. Three of the four companies settled prior to trial, while Taylored Industries elected to continue to trial.

The other companies involved in the suit are F.B. Wright Co., George B. Hamilton, Inc., and one referred to as the Gage Company: Pittsburgh Gage & Supply Co., which now is owned by IU North America Inc.

The Gazette reports all the companies have outlets in the Pittsburgh area and furnished different asbestos-containing products. Some were used in the equipment in the Fisher plant and others were components of the finished items that Fisher manufactured, such as hospital and laboratory equipment and furniture.

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