The family of Richard Worthley Sr. was awarded $3.4 million from the Advocate Mines Limited company after the death of the former Johns-Manville Transite plant worker from California.

Advocate Mines Limited was an asbestos mine in Newfoundland which supplied asbestos to the Johns-Manville Transite plant where Richard Worthley Sr. worked. Richard’s exposure to asbestos would ultimately cause his death from the asbestos-related cancer Mesothelioma. Richard was diagnosed with the cancer in 2004.

Advocate Mines Limited supplied Johns-Manville plants with asbestos from their company’s mines from 1963 to 1981.

Richard’s family argued that the Advocate Mines Limited company knew the dangers of asbestos and failed to warn the companies they shipped their product to.