Romano v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

JAMES F. McKAY III, CHIEF JUDGE

Lin this mesothelioma ease, both the defendant Union Carbide-Corporation and the plaintiffs, Frank Romano, Sr. and Lynn Romano, appeal a jury verdict entered by the trial court as well as the trial court’s denial-of their respective attempts to nullify the: jury’s verdict. The plaintiffs seek an increase in the quantum of damages, while the defendant questions liability and causation.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Frank Romano, Sr. grew up in Marrero, Louisiana and lived about two blocks away from the Johns-Manville Corporation’s plant there from the 1940’s until…