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February 26, 2026

Court throws out judgment blaming Montana asbestos deaths on BNSF railroad

By MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press

BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal appeals court has overturned a judge’s finding that BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people in a Montana mining town where thousands have been sickened by asbestos exposure.

Following a civil trial, a jury in 2024 awarded $4 million each to the estates of the two people who died in 2020. Their families blamed the railroad for allowing asbestos-contaminated mining material to accumulate in a rail yard in downtown Libby, Montana.


 
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