New York City Asbestos Litigation v. A C & S, Inc.

Judgment (Gomez) and revised judgment (Wiegman), Supreme Court, New York County (Louis B. York, J.), respectively entered June 15 and August 26, 2004, which awarded plaintiffs damages after a jury trial, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants-appellants’ claim that a Frye hearing should have been held is without merit. The link between asbestos and disease is well documented, and the parties merely differed as to whether the asbestos contained in this particular product could be released in respirable form so as to cause disease. Since the parties argued over causation, no novel…