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Landmark Case: $52 Million+ Verdict
Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez
In the most influential artificial stone silicosis case to date, Brayton Purcell LLP secured a verdict of more than $52 million for Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez, a fabricator of crystalline silica artificial stone countertops who developed advanced silicosis after exposure to respirable crystalline silica. This case helped expose industry-wide failures, spurred regulatory scrutiny, and established a litigation framework now used nationally.
- After a 6-week trial, 34-year old former countertop fabricator, Gustavo Reyes Gonzalez, received a verdict in his favor of $52,437,366.00 in the case Gustavo Reyes-Gonzalez v. Caesarstone USA, Inc; Cambria Company LLC; Color Marble, Inc.; et al.. Mr. Gonzalez worked at shops cutting, sanding, shaping, drilling and tailoring Artificial Stone (“Quartz”/engineered stone) slabs manufactured and distributed by defendants for use in home new construction and remodeling, apartment complexes, hospitals, hotels, airports, convention halls and government buildings throughout Southern California in Los Angeles and Orange County. Mr. Gonzalez became ill with silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhalation of invisible […]
- Anonymous v. Caesarstone U.S.A.; Cambria Co. LLC; EIDP, Inc.; Francini, Inc.; et al. – Personal injury action for a 51‑year‑old oxygen‑dependent, pre‑lung‑transplant stone slab fabricator who developed accelerated complicated silicosis with Pulmonary Massive Fibrosis (PMF) after working from 2000–2022 cutting, sawing, polishing, and finishing natural and artificial stone slabs at multiple fabrication shops in Sun Valley and Burbank, California. Jan-Feb 2025: Case resolved during jury selection, in excess of $26,000,000.00.
- Anonymous v. Caesarstone U.S.A., Inc., et al.–Career fabrication shop cutter of crystalline silica artificial stone slabs used for home, hotel, and other facility countertops beginning in 2006. In 2023, the worker was forced to stop work when diagnosed with incurable Pulmonary Massive Fibrosis (PMF) and accelerated silicosis leading to bilateral lung transplantation in 2024. Jan-Feb 2026: Case resolved as to all case defendants during plaintiff’s case in chief in excess of $20,000,000.00.