Kevan and Sherrie's Story
Sherrie and her late husband, Kevan, sought justice with SGB after a mesothelioma diagnosis
Kevan Holdsworth spent 40 years working at a paper mill in Camas, Washington. Nearly two decades after he retired, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma.
During his time at the mill, Mr. Holdsworth worked on the paper machine clean-up crew, a role that required him to regularly clean machinery with compressed air. That work brought him into direct contact with asbestos-containing dryer felts sold by Scapa Waycross, a company that supplied these products to the mill for years.
While Mr. Holdsworth was battling his terminal diagnosis, he and his wife, Sherrie Holdsworth, pursued justice with SGB. The case centered on Scapa’s sale of asbestos-containing products that lacked adequate safety design and warnings, despite the known dangers of asbestos exposure.
Following a four-week trial, the jury reached its decision in less than a day, finding Scapa negligent and its products unreasonably unsafe. The record-setting $16.67 million verdict, delivered on June 15, 2021, became the largest asbestos verdict in King County and the second largest in the state at the time.
