A Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has upheld a Philadelphia jury’s $725.5 million verdict against ExxonMobil in a case of cancer linked to exposure to benzene, an ingredient in gasoline.
The court denied ExxonMobil’s post-trial motions and added more $90 million in delay damages, to bring the total award to almost $816 million.
Paul Gil worked as a Mobil service station mechanic from 1974 to 1979.
During a trial in May, the jury weighed evidence of Gill’s exposure to benzene from gasoline, Mobil’s failure to warn him, and the harm that he and his wife