Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP

A Boston jury returned a $39 million verdict against talc supplier Cimbar Performance Minerals after finding that asbestos-contaminated talc used in a 2014 chest procedure caused Bryce Zundel's mesothelioma seven years later, marking the first trial anywhere to connect the common pleurodesis technique to asbestos disease.

A Richland County jury unanimously awarded $32 million, including $10 million in punitive damages against Kraft Heinz, after finding that secondhand asbestos fibers carried home on work clothes caused Kathy Weist's fatal mesothelioma diagnosis.

A New York jury awarded $28.5 million to retired Local 638 steamfitter James Petro Sr. after finding that his lung cancer was caused by asbestos exposure during the original construction of the World Trade Center, though the verdict was later vacated and a new trial ordered on apportionment.