{"id":2685,"date":"2022-02-23T07:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/?page_id=2685"},"modified":"2022-02-23T07:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T07:20:43","slug":"gutierrez-v-cassiar-mining-corp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/es\/gutierrez-v-cassiar-mining-corp\/","title":{"rendered":"Gutierrez V Cassiar Mining Corp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"page-title\">Asbestos Pipe<\/h1>\n<h2>Asbestos Victim Prevails in Suit Against Mining Co.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO, CA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 May 26, 1998 \u2014 Frank Gutierrez worked from 1970 through 1975 at the Santa Clara manufacturing plant of CertainTeed, a major manufacturer of industrial asbestos-containing pipe. Defendant Cassiar Mining Corp. supplied raw asbestos to CertainTeed\u2019s Santa Clara plant from its mines in Canada. A jury awarded damages to Mr. Gutierrez for his injuries from exposure to asbestos in CertainTeed\u2019s pipe products, and Cassiar appealed the decision.<\/p>\n<p>On appeal, Cassiar asked that the entire verdict be overturned. Through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/firm-overview\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Brayton Purcell\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0efforts, the appellate court affirmed the verdict for Mr. Gutierrez (Gutierrez v. Cassiar Mining Corp. 64 Cal.App.4th 148, 75 Cal.Rptr.2d 132). One of the grounds of the ruling was that the trial court properly excluded undisclosed defense witnesses called at the last minute. The appellate court found that Cassiar\u2019s attorneys failed to make the proper \u201coffer of proof\u201d before the trial court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asbestos Pipe Asbestos Victim Prevails in Suit Against Mining Co. SAN FRANCISCO, CA\u00a0\u2014 May 26, 1998 \u2014 Frank Gutierrez worked from 1970 through 1975 at the Santa Clara manufacturing plant of CertainTeed, a major manufacturer of industrial asbestos-containing pipe. Defendant Cassiar Mining Corp. supplied raw asbestos to CertainTeed\u2019s Santa Clara plant from its mines in Canada. A jury awarded damages to Mr. Gutierrez for his injuries from exposure to asbestos in CertainTeed\u2019s pipe products, and Cassiar appealed the decision. On appeal, Cassiar asked that the entire verdict be overturned. Through\u00a0Brayton Purcell\u2019s\u00a0efforts, the appellate court affirmed the verdict for Mr. Gutierrez<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2685","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braytonlaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}