Oct. 29, 2026
Jury awards $67.7 million to countertop worker with failing transplanted lungs
A Los Angeles jury found Caesarstone liable for a design defect in its artificial stone products that caused a countertop fabricator's silicosis. The verdict comes five days after another Southern California jury awarded $33 million in a separate artificial stone case.
A Los Angeles jury awarded $67.7 million Monday to a countertop fabricator whose double-lung transplant is already failing, finding that a design defect in Caesarstone's artificial stone products caused the silicosis that threatens his life.
The verdict for Dennys Rene Rivas Williams, who underwent a double-lung transplant in 2024, came five days after an Orange County jury awarded $33 million in a separate artificial stone silicosis case.
Jurors in Long Beach, before...
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