( February 27, 2025, 11:13 AM EST) -- WOBURN, Mass. — A Massachusetts justice largely affirmed previous rulings admitting expert William Longo and evidence about a third-party’s testing of talc and said that nothing required upsetting the jury’s verdict finding a talc company liable for a man’s mesothelioma after a talc pleurodesis procedure but that unclear instructions and perhaps an intent to punish led to a “greatly disproportionate” $21.5 million award for future pain and suffering and reduced that portion of the verdict to $6 million....