A Vietnam veteran who claims he was wrongfully arrested for a gunpoint robbery, an act that subsequently caused him to spend nearly two months in county prison, has filed suit against the police officers who took him into custody two years ago.
A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury May 16 awarded two elderly men who claimed they suffered shortness of breath because of asbestos-related conditions more than $1 million in total compensatory damages, according to plaintiff’s attorney Eliot Present.
A non-malignancy asbestos trial involving two out of state plaintiffs diagnosed with symptomatic pleural disease got under way May 9 at the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas before Judge Norman Ackerman.
