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1 dangerous to an extent beyond that contemplated by
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2 anybody using the product.
3 Pick up pipecovering or you pick up the
4 brake material, you don't know about the asbestos
5 content. That will be an issue.
6 Compensatory damages in survival action and
7 wrongful death.
8 The last thing I want to mention, ladies and
9 gentlemen, is in the Vandergucht case, you may hear
10 the defendants or you may be wondering why this case
11 is coming now when Mr. Vandergucht died in 1980.
12 Mr. Vandergucht knew nothing about whether
13 the products that he worked with or were around
14 contained any asbestos.
15 The first time Mrs. Vandergucht heard
16 anything or found anything out about the relationship
17 between her husband's death and illness and his
18 potential exposure to asbestos was in June of 1989
19 when she received a letter from her family -- from her
20 international union that her husband worked for
21 talking about the potential exposure and his death.