EXXON MOBIL CORP. v. MINTON

Record No. 111775.

737 S.E.2d 16 (2013)

285 Va. 115

EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION v. Connie MINTON, Executor of the Estate of Rubert E. Minton.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 10, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monica T. Monday ( Eric D. Cook ; Jonathan D. Hacker ; Scott M. Edson ; Brianne J. Gorod ; Willcox & Savage; Genry Locke Rakes & Moore; O'Melveny & Myers, on briefs), for appellant.

Robert R. Hatten ( William W.C. Harty ; Donald N. Patten ; Hugh B. McCormick, III ; Erin E. Jewell ; F. Alex Coletrane ; Patten, Wornom, Hatten & Diamonstein, on brief), for appellees.

Amici Curiae: Chamber of Shipping of America, American Waterways Operators, and the American Petroleum Institute ( Harold E. Johnson ; Joseph R. Pope ; Williams Mullen, on brief), in support of appellant.

Amicus Curiae: Virginia Trial Lawyers Association ( Mary Lynn Tate ; E. Kyle McNew; MichieHamlett), in support of appellee.

Amicus Curiae: United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO-CLC ( Nathan D. Finch ; Alex R. Straus ; Motley Rice, on brief), in support of appellees.

Present: KINSER, C.J., LEMONS, MILLETTE, MIMS, McCLANAHAN, and POWELL, JJ., and KOONTZ, S.J.


Opinion by Justice LEROY F. MILLETTE, JR.

This appeal arises out of a jury verdict against Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon) based on injuries that Rubert E. Minton suffered as a result of developing mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos while working on Exxon ships during his employment at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (Shipyard).

On appeal, Exxon assigns error to: (1) the circuit court's finding that the evidence was sufficient to show...

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