New Jersey Appeals Court Rules on Admissibility of Evidence in Proving Apportionment Claim

On June 29, 2018, a New Jersey state appeals court ruled that a superior court improperly allowed a jury to consider evidence, not represented at trial, in allocating damages among nine defendants in an asbestos case. The state appeals court ordered a new trial in Rowe v. Bell & Gossett Company to address the issue of re-apportioning the $1,500,000.00 jury verdict. Throughout Ronald Rowe’s thirty-plus year career working as an automobile mechanic, and repairing and servicing…