(The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals later reduced the punitive damages to three hundred thousand dollars and the compensatory damages to two hundred and ninety thousand dollars.) A week later, a federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee, also found against Johns-Manville, awarding two hundred and twenty thousand dollars in punitive damages and two hundred and eighty thousand dollars in compensatory damages to a retired insulator who had become disabled by asbestosis, as well as a hundred and forty thousand dollars to his wife for loss of consortium
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