Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

According to a report in “The Pulse,” a publication covering Chattanooga, Tenn., a Hamilton County jury awarded $1.4 million on Monday to Marion Jackson, who lost her husband to mesothelioma. The defendant in the case was North Brothers, and the paper reports this is believed to be the first successful judgment against that company.

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Almost one year after the Tennessee Supreme Court made a precedent-setting decision related to asbestos exposure, the Satterfield family has settled with Alcoa Aluminum. The settlement puts to rest a six-year legal fight by Doug and Donna Satterfield on behalf of their daughter, Amanda, who died of mesothelioma in 2005 as a result of years of exposure to asbestos brought home on her father’s work clothes, from his job at Alcoa .

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