Critics say tort reform necessary after $60M asbestos settlement
(New York Post Local News)

A Manhattan jury awarded $60 million to the family of a construction worker who died from asbestos exposure, in a verdict that critics say shows the need for tort reform. Pietro Macaluso did demolition work on single-family homes in Brooklyn in the 1970s and ´80s. The work required ripping out boilers laden with cancer-causing asbestos....