John Patrick Carty

Practice Details

• Languages
  Spanish
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Significant Representative Matters: Obtained a voluntary dismissal on behalf of an aircraft parts supplier in an asbestos mesothelioma case. The plaintiff alleged he was diagnosed with mesothelioma as a result of exposure to numerous asbestos products while doing home renovation work with his father in the 1940s, while in the U.S. Air Force working as an aircraft mechanic between 1953 to 1957, as a self-employed painter between 1958
  1960, as a civilian aircraft maintenance crew chief at the Willow Grove Air Force Base between 1959 to 1968,
  non-occupationally doing automotive
  home repair work. The plaintiff contended our client was the exclusive supplier of asbestos-containing fire sleeves for military aircraft hose assemblies that he worked with almost on a daily basis while at Willow Grove. Based upon the plaintiff's description of the product during his trial video
  discovery depositions, our client took the position that the product could not have been supplied by them. All other defendants either settled or were dismissed,
  our client took a no-pay position. As the case neared trial, plaintiff's counsel presented his evidence as to why the product identified by the plaintiff was accurate
  , therefore, why we should settle the case. Through a combination of the plaintiff's testimony, our witness's prior testimony, select portions of catalog pages
  drawings from the aircraft the plaintiff worked on,
  catalog pages from our client's catalogs, plaintiff's counsel was persuaded to voluntarily dismiss our client shortly before trial was to begin in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.